Study: Chlamydia in 4 percent of young adults
Wednesday, May 12, 2004 Posted: 9:02 AM EDT (1302 GMT)
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- More than 4 percent of young adults in the United States are infected with chlamydia, and the sexually transmitted disease is six times more common in blacks than in whites, researchers say.
In a nationally representative study of 14,322 people ages 18 to 26 conducted in 2001-02, University of North Carolina researchers found that 4.7 percent of women and 3.6 percent of men had chlamydia. The overall prevalence was 4.2 percent.
The study appears in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association.
Article: http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/05/12/chlamydia.ap/index.html