TABLE 1.
Characteristics of healthy participants and IDUs in this study
| Sociodemographics | Healthy controla | Intravenous drug users (IDUs) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neg-IDUsd | HIV-1+ | HCV+ | HIV-1/hCV+ | HBV+ | ||
| No. of individuals | 11 | 23 | 26 | 11 | 29 | 10 |
| Age | 31 (19 to 60) | 30 (21 to 37) | 31 (22 to 53) | 29 (21 to 39) | 31 (18 to 43) | 30.5 (28 to 36) |
| Gender (male/female) | 11/0 | 23/0 | 20/0 | 10/1 | 25/4 | 11/0 |
| Higher education | 9.1% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Married | 10 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 2 |
| Single/divorced | 1 | 15 | 20 | 7 | 23 | 8 |
| Duration of drug use/y | 3.5 (1 to 16) | 8.0 (1 to 20) | 4.0 (1 to 13) | 10.0 (1 to 22) | 6.0 (2 to 15) | |
| Frequency of drug use (times/day) | 3.0 (0.3 to 7) | 3.0 (1.5 to 10) | 3.0 (1 to 3) | 3.5 (1 to 9) | 4.0 (1 to 5) | |
| Syringe sharing | 38.1% | 60.0% | 30.0% | 50.0% | 77.8% | |
| Times of repeated syringe use | 1.0 (1 to 10) | 2.0 (1 to 8) | 1.5 (1 to 5) | 2.0 (1 to 10) | 3.0 (1 to 5) | |
| Cleaning method | ||||||
| Tap water | 75% | 50% | 66.7% | 78.6% | 71.4% | |
| Boiled water | 25% | 28.6% | 16.7% | 7.1% | 14.3% | |
| Never | 0 | 21.4% | 16.7% | 14.3% | 14.3% | |
| STDb history | 10.0% | 5.9% | 33.3% | 0 | 22.2% | |
| Sexual partners | 3.0 (0 to 10) | 1.0 (0 to 6) | 2.0 (0 to 5) | 1.0 (0 to 5) | 3.0 (1 to 10) | |
| Ways of drug use | ||||||
| Intravenous | 33.3% | 23.8% | 70.0% | 65.0% | 44.4% | |
| Intravenous and oral | 66.7% | 76.2% | 30.0% | 35.0% | 55.6% | |
| Drug rehabilitation times | 2.0 (1 to 4) | 2.0 (1 to 15) | 2.0 (1 to 5) | 4.0 (2 to 15) | 2.5 (1 to 5) | |
| Other drug usec | 74.7% | 75.0% | 85.7% | 78.9% | 100% | |
a
Healthy control group (non-IDU and without main viral infections).
b
STD, sexually transmitted disease.
c
IDUs without HIV-1/HCV/HBV infections.
d
Other drugs include Diazepam and Triazolam.