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Prospective evaluation of a model of risk for HIV infection among injecting drug users
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Prospective evaluation of a model of risk for HIV infection among injecting drug users

Martin Y. Iguchi, Donald A. Bux, Harvey Kushner, Victor Lidz, John F. French and Jerome J. Platt
Drug and alcohol dependence, v 40(1), pp 63-71
1995
PMID: 8746926

Abstract

HIV seropositivity Intravenous Replication study Risk factors Risk models Substance abuse
Data on 3016 out-of-treatment injecting drug users (IDUs) were analyzed in order to replicate findings from an earlier study on risk factors for HIV infection (Iguchi et al., 1992) and evaluate a model for estimating probability of infection. Logistic regression analyses yielded a set of risk factors highly consistent with previous findings. A logistic function was used to estimate subjects' probabilities of infection, and these estimates were strongly correlated with actual HIV prevalence in both the original and current samples. The current study represents a successful replication of earlier findings and supports the validity of the risk model.

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Psychiatry
Substance Abuse
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