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Article: Recent childbirth or acquisition of new partner boosts sexually transmitted disease risk in female teenagers.(Digests)
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- Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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Female adolescents who have a sexually transmitted disease (STD) are more likely to have recently acquired a new sex partner than their sexually active peers who do not have an STD, according to a longitudinal study of teenagers receiving care at public health clinics in Connecticut. (1) One in four adolescents acquired a new partner during the 12-month follow-up, and these women had three times as high odds of receiving a new chlamydia or gonorrhea diagnosis as others. Adolescents with a new partner were less likely than those with an established partner to know their partner's history of STDs and of sex with others. A second study by the same team of researchers using ...
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