Esmaeili, Aryan and Mirzazadeh, Ali and Morris, Meghan D and Hajarizadeh, Behzad and Sacks, Henry S and Maher, Lisa and Grebely, Jason and Kim, Arthur Y and Lauer, Georg and Cox, Andrea L and Hellard, Margaret and Dietze, Paul and Bruneau, Julie and Shoukry, Naglaa H and Dore, Gregory J and Lloyd, Andrew R and Prins, Maria and Page, Kimberly (2017) The effect of female sex on hepatitis C incidence among people who inject drugs: results from the international multi-cohort InC3 Collaborative. Clinical Infectious Diseases, cix768, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/cix768.
External website: https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/doi/10.1093/c...
This study from the United States of America provides valuable information on differences in hepatitis C virus (HCV) incidence by sex in people who inject drugs (PWID), controlling for differences in related exposures and behavioral factors, using well-characterized longitudinal data from geographically diverse prospective cohort studies.
J Health care, prevention, harm reduction and treatment > Health related issues > Health information and education > Communicable / infectious disease control
T Demographic characteristics > Woman (women / female)
T Demographic characteristics > Gender differences
T Demographic characteristics > Person who injects drugs (Intravenous / injecting)
VA Geographic area > United States
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