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Cause-Specific Life Expectancies After 35 Years of Age for Human Immunodeficiency Syndrome-Infected and Human Immunodeficiency Syndrome-Negative Individuals Followed Simultaneously in Long-term Cohort Studies, 1984–2008.
- Source :
- American Journal of Epidemiology; Jan2013, Vol. 177 Issue 2, p116-125, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- Parametric and semiparametric competing risks methods were used to estimate proportions, timing, and predictors of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)-related and non-AIDS-related mortality among individuals both positive and negative for the human immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV) in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS) and Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) from 1984 to 2008 and 1996 to 2008, respectively. Among HIV-positive MACS participants, the proportion of deaths unrelated to AIDS increased from 6% before the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) (before 1996) to 53% in the HAART era (P < 0.01); the median age of persons who died from non-AIDS-related causes after age 35 years increased from 49.0 to 66.0 years (P < 0.01). In both cohorts during the HAART era, median ages at time of non-AIDS-related death were younger for HIV-positive individuals than for comparable HIV-negative individuals (8.7 years younger in MACS (P < 0.01) and 7.6 years younger in WIHS (P < 0.01)). In a multivariate proportional cause-specific hazards model, unemployment (for non-AIDS death, hazard ratio (HR) = 1.8; for AIDS death, HR = 2.3), depression (for non-AIDS death, HR = 1.4; for AIDS death, HR = 1.4), and hepatitis B or C infection (for non-AIDS death, HR = 1.8, for AIDS death; HR = 1.4) were significantly (P < 0.05) associated with higher hazards of both non-AIDS and AIDS mortality among HIV-positive individuals in the HAART era, independent of study cohort. The results illuminate the changing face of mortality among the growing population infected with HIV. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- MORTALITY risk factors
RESEARCH
AGE distribution
AIDS patients
CONFIDENCE intervals
STATISTICAL correlation
CAUSES of death
MENTAL depression
HEPATITIS
HIV-positive persons
LIFE expectancy
LONGITUDINAL method
MEDICAL cooperation
RESEARCH funding
SURVIVAL analysis (Biometry)
UNEMPLOYMENT
SECONDARY analysis
HIGHLY active antiretroviral therapy
PROPORTIONAL hazards models
SEROCONVERSION
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00029262
- Volume :
- 177
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- American Journal of Epidemiology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 84950889
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kws321