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Table 1 Clinical characteristics of 257 hospitalised people who inject drugs

From: Prevalence and recurrence of bacteraemia in hospitalised people who inject drugs – a single Centre retrospective cohort study in Denmark

Clinical characteristics:

PWID n = 257 (%)

Age (median) (IQR)

38 (34–45)

HBV-status

Acute/Chronic

11 (4.3)

Resolved/Immunised

50 (19.5)

Negative

79 (30.7)

Unknown

117 (45.5)

HCV-status

Acute

1 (0.4)

Chronic

102 (39.7)

Resolved

12 (4.7)

Chronic or resolved

58 (22.6)

Negative

8 (3.1)

Unknown

76 (29.6)

HIV-status

Positive

127 (49.4)

Negative

101 (39.3)

Unknown

29 (11.3)

HIV and HCV co-infection

88 (34.2)

Psychiatric comorbidity

53 (20.6)

Opioid substitution treatment

210 (81.7)

Homeless

74 (28.8)

Contact to an addiction treatment center

169 (65.8)

  1. If not stated otherwise, results are presented as n (%)
  2. Abbreviations: PWID people who inject drugs, HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HBV hepatitis B, HCV hepatitis