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. 2011 Oct 15;2012:725412. doi: 10.1155/2012/725412

Table 2.

Factors associated with late diagnosis (time to HIV diagnosis over 4.19 years).

Whole cohort (N = 3667) New HIV diagnoses (N = 2928)
LD*/Total % Adjusted OR (95% CI) P LD*/Total % Adjusted OR (95% CI) P
Sex
 Men 1018/2854 36 1.67 (1.27–2.21) <0.001 936/2287 41 1.77 (1.30–2.40) <0.001
 Women 233/813 29 1 211/641 33 1

Age at HIV diagnosis <0.001 <0.001
 Up to 30 337/1397 24 1 296/964 31 1
 31–40 498/1361 37 1.79 (1.46–2.19) <0.001 459/1133 41 1.49 (1.19–1.87) <0.001
 Over 41 408/892 46 2.64 (2.10–3.30) <0.001 392/830 47 1.95 (1.56–2.45) <0.001
 Not available 7/17 42 1.99 (0.61–6.54) 0.256 1/1 0.808

Transmission category 0.055 0.043
 Injection drug user 154/578 27 0.83 (0.62–1.09) 0.176 136/296 46 1.60 (1.10–2.32) 0.014
 Men who have sex with men 526/1581 33 1 479/1339 36 1
 Heterosexual risk exposure 516/1376 37 1.26 (0.98–1.62) 0.069 483/1187 41 1.39 (1.06–1.82) 0.016
 Other (vertical, transfusions, tattoos, etc.) 21/58 37 1.08 (0.56–2.09) 0.820 20/46 44 1.36 (0.68–2.72) 0.385
 Don't know/No answer 34/74 45 1.47 (0.77–2.79) 0.241 30/60 50 1.70 (0.89–3.21) 0.105

Country of origin 0.004 0.065
 Spain 812/2512 32 1 743/1958 38 1
 Western Europe 41/114 36 1.14 (0.68–1.93) 0.615 34/82 41 1.11 (0.59–2.09) 0.744
 Eastern Europe and Russia 25/72 35 1.48 (0.77–2.86) 0.243 23/64 37 1.13 (0.56–2.29) 0.731
 Sub-Saharan Africa 104/246 42 1.75 (1.20–2.56) 0.004 95/215 44 1.54 (1.04–2.29) 0.032
 North Africa 27/58 47 1.75 (0.85–3.59) 0.129 27/56 49 1.49 (0.70–3.14) 0.297
 Latin America 231/631 37 1.38 (1.09–1.74) 0.008 214/522 41 1.38 (1.08–1.75) 0.009
 Other/not available 11/34 34 0.96 (0.39–2.34) 0.925 11/31 36 0.92 (0.39–2.18) 0.846

Total 1251/3667 34 1147/2928 39

*LD.: Late diagnosis (patients with time to HIV diagnosis over 4.19 years).