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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 23.
Published in final edited form as: Life Sci. 2010 Oct 1;88(21-22):948–952. doi: 10.1016/j.lfs.2010.09.025

  • Poverty

  • Unstable housing

  • Depression / other psychiatric disorders

  • Viral hepatitis

  • Tuberculosis

  • Eroded social support network

  • Malnutrition

  • Incarceration

  • Limited job skills / work history

  • Sexually transmitted diseases

  • Bacterial pneumonia

  • Skin and bloodstream infections