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Relationship Between HIV‐1 Antibody Seropositivity and Alcohol/Nonintravenous Drug Abuse Among Psychiatric Inpatients
Author(s) -
Lee Hyung Kon,
Travin Sheldon,
Bluestone Harvey
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
the american journal on addictions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.997
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-0391
pISSN - 1055-0496
DOI - 10.1111/j.1521-0391.1992.tb00011.x
Subject(s) - drug abuser , substance abuse , drug , intravenous drug , medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , psychiatry , alcohol abuse , alcohol , statistical significance , immunology , viral disease , biology , biochemistry
Of 132 psychiatric inpatients tested for human immunodeficiency virus type 1 antibody seropositivity, 41.7% (10/24) of intravenous drug abusers, 11.4% (8/70) of alcohol and/or nonintravenous drug abusers, and 2.6% (1/38) of nonabusers showed seropositivity, indicating a fourfold increase in the seropositivity among alcohol/non‐intravenous drug abusers compared with nonabusers. This difference, however, did not reach the level of statistical significance.