Using Machine Learning to Identify Predictors of Sexually Transmitted Infections Over Time Among Young People Living With or at Risk for HIV Who Participated in ATN Protocols 147, 148, and 149.

Journal: Sexually transmitted diseases
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among youth aged 12 to 24 years have doubled in the last 13 years, accounting for 50% of STIs nationally. We need to identify predictors of STI among youth in urban HIV epicenters.

Authors

  • W Scott Comulada
    From the Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
  • Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus
    From the Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
  • Elizabeth Mayfield Arnold
    College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
  • Peter Norwood
    From the Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
  • Sung-Jae Lee
    From the Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.
  • Manuel A Ocasio
    Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.
  • Risa Flynn
    Los Angeles LGBT Center.
  • Karin Nielsen-Saines
    University of California, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.
  • Robert Bolan
    Los Angeles LGBT Center.
  • Jeffrey D Klausner
    Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
  • Dallas Swendeman
    From the Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA.