Race and the prevalence of syphilis seroreactivity in the United States population: a national sero-epidemiologic study.
- 1 April 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 79 (4) , 467-470
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.79.4.467
Abstract
We used the 1978 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to examine the prevalence of positive syphilis serologies in the US population. Analysis of risk markers--gender, age, marital status, education, income, and residence--indicates that all except gender are associated with syphilis seroreactivity, independent of race. Controlling for associated risk markers, the Black-White odds ratio of syphilis seroreactivity is 4.7 (95% CI = 2.7, 8.2). Current knowledge of racial differences in sexual and health care behavior does not explain the Black-White difference in the prevalence of syphilis seroreactivity.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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