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Sexually transmitted infections in older patients
Author(s)	Vanessa Akyeampong, Patrick French
Journal title	GM (Geriatric Medicine), vol 39, no 2, February 2009
Pages	pp 69-74
Source	http://www.gerimed.co.uk
Keywords	Sexual activity ; Infectious diseases ; AIDS ; Diagnosis.
Annotation	Clinicians should recognise that older patients are often sexually active and, therefore, at risk of sexually transmitted infections. Syphilis and HIV are two such infections with particular relevance in an older population, since the morbidity of other infections mainly affects fertility, which is of little worry in older patients. Since 1998, diagnoses of syphilis have been increasing in the UK, and late effects of earlier epidemics may be seen as untreated, latent, or symptomatic syphilis. In the case of HIV, effective anti-viral treatment has increased the life-span of patients and an increasing number of new diagnoses are made in much older patients. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-090420202 A
Classmark	BIU: CJA: CQTT: LK7
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