Race A Factor In Young Women Tested For STDs: When young women visiting the emergency room complaining of symptoms that indicate a sexually transmitted disease, many are not tested for possible infection, unless the woman happens to be African-American who is, according to a provocative new study, Uninsured young women often rely on emergency rooms as their primary source of medical care, and lack of a diagnosis of STDs can have serious consequences for themselves and their sexual partners, said that doctors who have completed two studies presented Recently at a meeting of university associations of Pediatrics. Conditions such as untreated chlamydia can cause pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility, and undermine public health efforts. However, young African American women and girls who come to the emergency are much more likely to have their sexual histories taken and tested for STDs than young white women and girls, the researchers said. (The researchers did not survey prices, in particular, STD testing young women Hispanic or Asian.) Dr. Carolyn K. Holland, a specialist clinic for children and research Cincinnati Children's Hospital, studied the medical records of 293 aged 13-21 with symptoms of abdominal, urinary or gynecological problems that could indicate STD. Data from 2010 showed that 71.3 percent of young black women were tested, while only 18.6 percent of young Caucasian women. Overall, young black women were 2.6 times more likely to have their sexual history is documented in the patient information. Of those who said the sexually active, 87 percent have been tested for sexually transmitted diseases, but only 58 percent of young white women who reported sex were tested.
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