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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 5.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Infect Dis. 2019 Mar 5;68(6):913–918. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciy558

Table 1:

Demographic characteristics of patients with current clinical diagnosis of syphilis, prior treated syphilis and those without syphilis, n=959

Characteristics Current syphilis
n=262 (%)		 Prior treated syphilis only
n=294		 No syphilis
N=403 (%)		 p value*
Mean age (SD) 43.3 years (13.7) 47.7 years (12.6) 40.5 years (18.4) 0.03
Male gender 233 (88.9%) 248 (84.4%) 204 (50.6%) <0.0001
Man who has sex with men (MSM) 172 (65.6%) 145 (48.3%) 51 (12.7%) <0.0001
Pregnant 3 (1.2%) 6 (2.0%) 11 (2.7%) 0.16
HIV Positive 136 (51.9%) 181 (61.6%) 12 (3.0%) <0.0001
*

Comparing patients with current syphilis vs those without syphilis