CMAJ September 9, 2008; 179 (6). doi:10.1503/cmaj.071655.
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Physical violence against intimate partners and related exposures to violence among South African men
Jhumka Gupta, ScD MPH,
Jay G. Silverman, PhD,
David Hemenway, PhD,
Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, PhD,
Dan J. Stein, MD and
David R. Williams, PhD
From Yale School of Public Health and Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (Gupta), Yale University, New Haven, Conn.; Department of Society, Human Development, and Health (Gupta, Silverman, Acevedo-Garcia, Williams), Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass.; Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health (Hemenway), Boston, Mass.; and Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health (Stein), Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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Figure 1: Flow diagram showing study population of South African men who had ever been married or in a cohabiting relationship and who provided data regarding exposure to violence and their own perpetration of physical violence against intimate partners.
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Figure 2: Adjusted odds ratios for reported use of physical violence against intimate partners according to exposure to other types of violence for 834 South African men. *Primary outcome. CI = confidence interval, OR = odds ratio.
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