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Table 1 Risk factors related to early syphilis, overall and by HIV serostatus. Barcelona 2015

From: Early syphilis: risk factors and clinical manifestations focusing on HIV-positive patients

  

HIV negative

N = 167%

95%CI

HIV positive

N = 95%

95%CI

ALL

N = 266a

%

p Value

aOR

(95% CI)

Sexual practices and condomless anal sex (CAS)

CAS

104

75

183

0.002

 

65.5

84.3

72.5

(57.4, 72.7)

(75.0, 91.1)

 

Receptive anal sex

107

77

185

0.011

 

67.3

82.8

72.3

(59.4, 74.5)

(73.5, 89.8)

 

Receptive CAS

40

46

88

0.005

 

39.6

62.2

49.7

(30.0, 49.8)

(50.1, 73.2)

 

Number of casual partners

10

10

10

0.041

 

[4-5]

[5.75–32.8]

[4-20]

Number of casual partners with anal sex

5

6.5

6

0.039

 

[2-12]

[4–21.5]

[2-15]

Number of casual partners with CAS

1

3

1

0.001

 

[0–2.25]

[1-7]

[0-4]

Sexual risk behaviors

Serosorting

4

28

32

< 0.001

20.4

3

43.1

16

[7.99–60.96]

(0.8, 7.6)

(30.8, 55.9)

 

Seroposition

10

15

25

0.004

 

8.4

25.4

13.8

(4.1, 14.9)

(14.9, 38.4)

 

Contact through App

99

65

166

0.164

 

61

70.7

64.3

(53.1, 68.6)

(60.2, 79.7)

 

Contact through internet

55

34

89

0.729

 

34

37

34.5

(26.7, 41.8)

(27.1, 47.6)

 

Club sex

27

27

54

0.027

 

16.7

29.3

20.9

(11.2, 23.3)

(20.3, 39.7)

 

Sauna

33

17

50

0.841

 

20.4

18.5

19.5

(14.4, 27.4)

(11.1, 27.9)

 

Fisting

28

21

50

0.232

 

18.1

25.6

20.7

(12.3, 25.0)

(16.6, 36.4)

 

Sex in group

66

59

125

< 0.001

 

41.8

69.4

50.6

(34.0, 49.8)

(58.4, 78.9)

 

Toys

53

39

93

0.06

 

33.3

46.4

37.7

(26.0, 41.2)

(35.4, 57.6)

 

Drugs for sex

78

66

145

< 0.001

 

46.7

71

54.7

(38.9, 54.5)

(60.6, 79.9)

 

 Cocaine

21

27

49

0.096

 

26.4

41.5

34

(17.5, 38.1)

(29.4, 54.4)

 

 Mephedrone

4

12

16

0.024

 

5

18.5

11

(1.4, 12.6)

(9.9, 30.0)

 

 GHB

22

35

58

0.003

 

28.2

53.8

40.3

(18.6, 39.5)

(41.0, 66.3)

 

 Sildenafil

20

29

49

0.028

 

25.6

44.6

34

(16.4, 36.8)

(32.2, 57.4)

 

 Crystal methamphetamine

9

19

28

0.015

 

11.5

29.2

19.5

(5.4, 20.7)

(18.6, 41.8)

 

Poly drug use

27

34

61

0.05

 

16

37

22.6

(10.9, 22.6)

(23.2, 46.2)

 

Chemsex

26

40

67

0.001

 

15.5

42

25

(10.4, 21.9)

(32.0, 52.6)

  1. +in italics: median with interquartile range in brackets
  2. afour cases with HIV unknown serostatus