Racial Disparities Associated with Increased Burden of Sexually Transmitted Infections in North Carolina, Southeastern United States
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Variable | Median | Minimum | Maximum |
---|---|---|---|
Some college education (%) | 57.0 | 40.9 | 81.0 |
Household income ($) | 46,000 | 33,000 | 76,000 |
Black population (%) | 19.4 | 1.1 | 61.2 |
Female (%) | 51.3 | 45.8 | 53.7 |
Unemployed (%) | 5.3 | 3.8 | 9.2 |
No. truck stops | 3.0 | 1.0 | 12.0 |
Distance to I-95 (miles) | 119.3 | 7.3 | 399.1 |
PCP ratio | 2075 | 533 | 10,213 |
Uninsured status (%) | 13.0 | 10.0 | 21.0 |
Rural (%) | 50.7 | 1.1 | 100.0 |
Chlamydia (IR per 100,000) | 537.0 | 179.5 | 1222.3 |
Gonorrhea (IR per 100,000) | 181.6 | 43.7 | 534.6 |
Primary syphilis (IR per 100,000) | 2.5 | 0.6 | 15.5 |
HIV (IR per 100,000) | 11.3 | 4.8 | 28.0 |
Variable | Chlamydia | Gonorrhea | Syphilis (Primary) | HIV | ||||||||
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β | SE | p | β | SE | p | β | SE | p | β | SE | p | |
Some college education | 10.02 | 3.15 | 0.002 | 2.34 | 1.77 | 0.191 | 0.12 | 0.09 | 0.200 | 0.15 | 0.13 | 0.259 |
Household income | −0.008 | 0.003 | 0.006 | −0.004 | 0.002 | 0.023 | 0.00004 | 0.00 | 0.573 | 0.00006 | 0.00 | 0.623 |
Black population | 12.17 | 1.57 | <0.001 | 5.21 | 0.89 | <0.001 | 0.22 | 0.06 | 0.001 | 0.40 | 0.07 | <0.001 |
Female population | −20.49 | 13.05 | 0.12 | 3.01 | 7.36 | 0.684 | −0.72 | 0.42 | 0.094 | 1.16 | 0.56 | 0.042 |
No. truck stops | 20.20 | 6.75 | 0.004 | 9.60 | 3.81 | 0.014 | −0.09 | 0.18 | 0.632 | 0.49 | 0.28 | 0.079 |
Distance to I-95 | −0.20 | 0.27 | 0.468 | 0.10 | 0.15 | 0.513 | 0.01 | 0.008 | 0.084 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
PCP ratio | −0.01 | 0.01 | 0.280 | −0.01 | 0.007 | 0.332 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.416 | 0.00 | 0.001 | 0.463 |
Uninsured status | −1.65 | 10.66 | 0.078 | −0.83 | 6.01 | 0.890 | 0.56 | 0.32 | 0.086 | 0.30 | 0.45 | 0.507 |
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Ahiawodzi, P.D.; Nicholson, C.; Williams, B.; Thompson, D.K. Racial Disparities Associated with Increased Burden of Sexually Transmitted Infections in North Carolina, Southeastern United States. Venereology 2023, 2, 173-179. https://doi.org/10.3390/venereology2040015
Ahiawodzi PD, Nicholson C, Williams B, Thompson DK. Racial Disparities Associated with Increased Burden of Sexually Transmitted Infections in North Carolina, Southeastern United States. Venereology. 2023; 2(4):173-179. https://doi.org/10.3390/venereology2040015
Chicago/Turabian StyleAhiawodzi, Peter D., Cydney Nicholson, Briana Williams, and Dorothea K. Thompson. 2023. "Racial Disparities Associated with Increased Burden of Sexually Transmitted Infections in North Carolina, Southeastern United States" Venereology 2, no. 4: 173-179. https://doi.org/10.3390/venereology2040015