Open AccessBenzodiazepine Use and Hepatitis C Seroconversion in a Cohort of Persons Who Inject Drugs
Author(s) -
Paxton Bach,
Geoffrey Walton,
Kanna Hayashi,
MJ Milloy,
Huiru Dong,
Thomas Kerr,
Julio S. G. Montaner,
Evan Wood
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2016.303090
Subject(s) - medicine , seroconversion , prospective cohort study , confidence interval , cohort , population , hepatitis c , injection drug use , cohort study , demography , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , virology , environmental health , drug injection , sociology
To examine the relationship between benzodiazepine (BZD) use and HCV seroconversion in 2 linked prospective cohorts of persons who inject drugs (PWID).