Gonococcal infections in women attending the Venereal Disease Clinic of the Nashville Davidson County Metropolitan Health Department, 1984.
During the first six months of 1984, slightly more than a third (34.1%) of the 1,549 women who attended the Venereal Disease Clinic of the Nashville Davidson County Health Department in this study were found to be infected with Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Infection prevalence was 36.7% for black women and 27.1% for white. The frequency of sexual intercourse and the number of sexual partners during the previous 30 days were similar for black and white patients. Fewer women were using contraceptives (67.8%) than in 1979 (87%). Exceptionally high rates of infection were found in women whose sexual partners had gonorrhea. Even with similar levels of sexual activity, black women faced greater risk of infection than white women, possibly because they were much more likely to be exposed to an infected man.
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Department of Preventive Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn.
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D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D003075:Coitus; D003267:Contraception; D005260:Female; D006069:Gonorrhea / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D008393:Marriage; D013714:Tennessee; D014505:Urban Population; D044465:White People