Health-adjusted life expectancy in HIV-positive and HIV-negative men and women in British Columbia, Canada: a population-based observational cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We sought to understand whether people living with HIV (PLHIV) ever on highly active antiretroviral therapy (ART) follow a pattern where morbidity is compressed into the last years of life or lessened as people age. We aimed to estimate health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) among adults living with and without HIV, and examine dependency between causes of comorbidities.

Methods

The Comparative Outcomes and Service Utilization Trends (COAST) study is a retrospective cohort of adults (≥20 years) including all known PLHIV and a 10% random sample of the general population of British Columbia, and with longitudinal data spanning from April 1, 1996, to Dec 31, 2012. We determined the prevalence of select comorbidities (cardiovascular, respiratory, liver, and renal dise

SUBMITTER: Hogg RS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5761654 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature