Current social, legal and institutional factors impede a safe working environment for sex workers and their clients. OBJECTIVES: To describe characteristics and sexual behaviour of female, male and transgender sex workers, and assess their risk factors for unprotected sex. METHODS:Repeat cross-sectional...
Background: In India HIV epidemic still being driven by risky behavior of men and high HIV infection rates among sex workers continue to be detected in India. Research among higher risk subpopulations in developed countries, indicates that persons at risk of HIV infection or transmission of HIV ...
This study surveyed college students in one southern state to determine their sexual knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. A group of 915 students (602 female and 313 male) attending 4 state universities completed the Sexual Knowledge instrument during class. The instrument contained 27 sex knowledge ...
A large body of research on justice-involved youth focuses on risk and promotive factors associated with delinquent behaviors. However, few studies of youth involved with the justice system have centered on predictors of positive adjustment post-adjudication, that is, once a youth has been charged ...
We aimed to explore whether clustering of multiple risk factors are associated with the risk of new-onset hypertension defined by the 2017 ACC/AHA Hypertension Guideline. Subjects who attended ≥2 annual health examinations without baseline hypertension and cardiovascular disease were included. ...
but the determinants of these hormones are not well understood.Cross-sectional analyses of breast cancer risk factors and circulating hormone concentrations in more than 6000 postmenopausal women controls in 13 prospective studies.Concentrations of all hormones were lower in older than younger women, with...
HIV-infected men who have sex with men (MSM) display the highest prevalence of anal infection by high-risk Human Papillomaviruses (hrHPVs) and incidence of anal carcinoma. Anal specimens were genotyped by the Linear Array. Incidence and clearance of anal
Figure 6.Summer temperature and salinity distribution of the surface/bottom seawater The numbers refer to the stations. 下载:全尺寸图片幻灯片 3.2 海水温盐垂向分布特征 虽然调查区不同站位之间水深差别较大,但温度和盐度结构特征在垂向上分布趋势相似(图7)。调查区温度垂直结构表现为自表至底逐渐降低的趋势...
To explore the risk factors associated with the occurrence of renal failure and column line graph model for predicting concurrent renal failure in patients with chronic kidney disease(CKD). Methods The raw data were collected from the Japanese CKD-ROUTE study for prediction model development and inte...
Factors of production are the inputs needed for the creation of a good or service. These include labor, entrepreneurship, and capital.