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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Low socioeconomic status and risk for infection with human herpesvirus 8 among HIV-1 negative, South African black cancer patients
Epidemiology and Infection, Volume 132, No. 6, Year 2004
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Between January 1994 and October 1997, we interviewed 2576 black in-patients with newly diagnosed cancer in Johannesburg and Soweto, South Africa. Blood was tested for HIV-1 and HHV-8 antibodies and the study was restricted to 2191 HIV-1 antibody-negative patients. We examined the relationship between infection with HHV-8 and sociodemographic and behavioural factors using unconditional logistic regression models. Of the 2191 HIV-1 negative patients who did not have Kaposi's sarcoma, 854 (39.1%) were positive for antibodies against the latent nuclear antigen of HHV-8 encoded by orf73 in a immunofluorescence assay. Infection with HHV-8 was independently associated with increasing age (P trend = 0.02). For females, independent risk factors also included working in a paid domestic capacity (OR 1.63, 95% CI 1.09-2.44, P = 0.02), defining occupational status as economically non-active unemployed (OR 1.70, 95% CI 1.06-2.72, P = 0.03), having a state pension or being on a disability grant (OR 1.49, 95% CI 1.05-2.11, P = 0.02), using oral contraceptives (OR 1.43, 95% CI 1.03-1.99, P = 0.03) and having a delayed age at menarche (P trend = 0.04). The relationship between these variables and HHV-8 antibody status requires further, prospective study. © 2004 Cambridge University Press.
Authors & Co-Authors
Wojcicki, Janet Maia
United States, San Francisco
Ucsf Center for Aids Prevention Studies
Newton, Robert A.
United Kingdom, Oxford
University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division
Urban, Margaret I.
South Africa, Johannesburg
South African Cancer Epidemiology
Stein, Lara
South Africa, Johannesburg
South African Cancer Epidemiology
Hale, Martin John
South Africa, Johannesburg
University of the Witwatersrand
Patel, Manish I.
South Africa, Johannesburg
University of the Witwatersrand
South Africa, Johannesburg
Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital
Ruff, Paul W.
South Africa, Johannesburg
University of the Witwatersrand
Canada, Hamilton
Mcmaster University
Sur, Ranjan Kumar
South Africa, Johannesburg
University of the Witwatersrand
South Africa, Johannesburg
Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital
Bourboulia, Dimitra
United Kingdom, London
Ucl Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research
Sitas, F.
South Africa, Johannesburg
South African Cancer Epidemiology
Australia, Woolloomooloo
Cancer Council Nsw
Statistics
Citations: 16
Authors: 10
Affiliations: 9
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1017/S0950268804002845
ISSN:
09502688
Research Areas
Cancer
Disability
Health System And Policy
Infectious Diseases
Study Design
Cohort Study
Study Locations
South Africa
Participants Gender
Female