Volume 17, Number 6—June 2011
Dispatch
Association of Patients’ Geographic Origins with Viral Hepatitis Co-infection Patterns, Spain
Santiago Pérez Cachafeiro
, Ana María Caro-Murillo, Juan Berenguer, Ferran Segura, Felix Gutiérrez, Francesc Vidal, Maria Ángeles Martínez-Pérez, Julio Sola, Roberto Muga, Santiago Moreno, Julia Del Amo, on behalf of Cohort of the Spanish Aids Research Network
, Ana María Caro-Murillo, Juan Berenguer, Ferran Segura, Felix Gutiérrez, Francesc Vidal, Maria Ángeles Martínez-Pérez, Julio Sola, Roberto Muga, Santiago Moreno, Julia Del Amo, on behalf of Cohort of the Spanish Aids Research Network
Table 1
Sociodemographic characteristics of patients in Cohort of the Spanish Aids Research Network by geographic origin, Spain, 2004–2008*
| Patient characteristic | No. (%) patients |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | Spain | Western Europe | Eastern Europe | Sub-Saharan Africa | North Africa | Latin America | Other/UNK | |
| Total | 4,419 | 3,023 | 136 | 90 | 315 | 67 | 740 | 48 |
| Female sex |
1,003 (22.70) |
574 (18.99) |
15 (11.03)† |
41 (45.56)‡ |
182 (57.78)‡ |
24 (35.82)‡ |
166 (22.43)† |
1 (2.08) |
| Age, y | ||||||||
| <31 | 1,344 (30.42) | 751 (24.84) | 23 (16.91) | 56 (62.22)‡ | 147 (46.67)‡ | 18 (26.87) | 330 (44.59)‡ | 19 (39.58) |
| 31–40 | 1,750 (39.61) | 1,197 (39.60) | 76 (55.88)‡ | 23 (25.56) | 105 (33.33) | 32 (47.76) | 301 (40.68) | 16 (33.33) |
| >40 |
1,325 (29.98) |
1,075 (35.56) |
37 (27.21) |
11 (12.22) |
63 (20.00)† |
17 (25.37) |
109 (14.73)‡ |
13 (27.08) |
| Transmission | ||||||||
| Heterosexual | 1,666 (37.70) | 960 (31.76) | 30 (22.06) | 48 (53.33)‡ | 284 (90.16)‡ | 50 (74.63)‡ | 282 (38.11)† | 12 (25.00) |
| IDU | 721 (16.32) | 641 (21.20) | 25 (18.38) | 24 (26.67) | 5 (1.59) | 6 (8.96) | 14 (1.89) | 6 (12.50) |
| MSM | 1,852 (41.91) | 1,301 (43.04) | 78 (57.35)† | 12 (13.33)† | 2 (0.63) | 6 (8.96) | 427 (57.70)‡ | 26 (54.17) |
| Other/UNK |
180 (4.07) |
121(4.00) |
3 (2.21) |
6 (6.67) |
24 (7.62) |
5(7.46) |
17 (2.30) |
4 (8.33) |
| Level of studies | ||||||||
| No studies | 303 (6.86) | 152 (5.03) | 5 (3.68) | 9 (10.00) | 78 (24.76)‡ | 15 (22.39)‡ | 41 (5.54) | 3 (6.25) |
| Primary | 1,416 (32.04) | 998 (33.01) | 30 (22.06) | 33 (36.67) | 92 (29.21) | 19 (28.36) | 236 (31.89) | 8 (16.67) |
| Secondary | 1,203 (27.22) | 839 (27.75) | 42 (30.88) | 28 (31.11) | 39 (12.38)† | 14 (20.90) | 231 (31.22) | 10 (20.83) |
| University | 642 (14.53) | 459 (15.18) | 39 (28.68)† | 7 (7.78) | 10 (3.17) | 7 (10.45) | 113 (15.27) | 7 (14.58) |
| Unknown | 855 (19.35) | 575 (19.02) | 20 (14.71) | 13 (14.44) | 96 (30.48)† | 12 (17.91) | 119 (16.08) | 20 (41.67)† |
*IDU, injection drug user; MSM, men who have sex with men; UNK, unknown.
†p<0.05, χ2 test for the difference between proportions of persons from each place of origin and persons born in Spain.
‡p<0.01.
1A complete listing of the members of the Spanish AIDS Research Network is provided in the Technical Appendix
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