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1 November 2007

Volume 45, Number 9
Clinical Infectious Diseases 2007;45:1200–1203
© 2007 by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved.
1058-4838/2007/4509-0012$15.00
DOI: 10.1086/522176
BRIEF REPORT

Nationwide Increase in the Number of Hospitalizations for Illicit Injection Drug Use–Related Infective Endocarditis

Hannah L. F. Cooper,1,a

Joanne E. Brady,1

Daniel Ciccarone,2

Barbara Tempalski,1

Karla Gostnell,1 and

Samuel R. Friedman1

1National Development and Research Institutes, New York, New York, and 2University of California, San Francisco

Infective endocarditis is a potentially fatal consequence of illicit injection drug use. We estimate that the number of hospitalization for injection drug use–related infective endocarditis increased by 38%–66% in the United States between 2000–2001 and 2002–2003, a period during which the number of at‐risk persons (i.e., injection drug users) remained stable. Increasing methamphetamine use and/or drug injection frequency may have increased the incidence of infective endocarditis among active injection drug users.

Received 23 March 2007; accepted 30 July 2007; electronically published 25 September 2007.

Reprints or correspondence: Dr. Hannah Cooper, Dept. of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, 1518 Clifton Rd. NE, Rm. 568, Atlanta GA 30322 ().

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  • Present affiliation: Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia.

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