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. 2008 Nov 21;14(43):6689–6693. doi: 10.3748/wjg.14.6689

Table 1.

Epidemiological demographic characteristics of HIV, HIV/HBV, HIV/HCV and HIV/HBV/HCV n (%)

HIV HIV/HBV HIV/HCV HIV/HBV/HCV
Number of patients and prevalence 3887 (68.93) 252 (4.47) 1411 (25.02) 89 (1.58)
Mean age (yr) 45.0 44.2 50.4 47.8
Gender
Female 1266 (32.6) 48 (19.0) 392 (27.8) 13 (14.6)
Male 2583 (66.5) 203 (80.6) 1005 (71.2) 75 (84.3)
Male->Female or Female->Male 38 (1.0) 1 (0.4) 14 (1.0) 1 (1.1)
Ethnic group
White 551 (14.2) 34 (13.5) 203 (14.4) 16 (18.0)
Hispanic 1267 (32.6) 44 (17.5) 553 (39.2) 34 (38.2)
African American 1951 (50.2) 169 (67.1) 630 (44.6) 39 (43.8)
Other 118 (3.0) 5 (2.0) 25 (1.8) 0 (0.0)
Risk factor of HIV acquisition
Hetero 1683 (43.3) 90 (35.7) 285 (20.2) 9 (10.1)
MSM 1233 (31.7) 117 (46.4) 148 (10.5) 17 (19.1)
Hetero and MSM 38 (1.0) 3 (1.2) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0)
IDU 407 (10.5) 6 (2.4) 702 (49.8) 38 (42.7)
IDU and hetero 90 (2.3) 3 (1.2) 165 (11.7) 13 (14.6)
IDU and MSM 24 (0.6) 3 (1.2) 57 (4.0) 5 (5.6)
IDU and hetero and MSM 6 (0.2) 0 (0.0) 1 (0.1) 0 (0.0)
Transfusion 36 (0.9) 3 (1.2) 21 (1.5) 0 (0.0)
Perinatal 101 (2.6) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0) 0 (0.0)
Other 31 (0.8) 1 (0.4) 0 (0.0) 1 (1.1)
Unknown 238 (6.1) 26 (10.3) 32 (2.3) 6 (6.7)

Data are number (%) of patients, unless otherwise indicated. Hetero, heterosexual; Other, including sexually abused, transfusion, needle stick injury.