Trends in Cardiovascular Disease Mortality Among Persons With HIV in New York City, 2001-2012.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has become more prominent among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals. The extent to which CVD mortality rates are changing is unclear.

Methods

We analyzed surveillance data for all persons aged ≥13 years with HIV infection between 2001 and 2012 reported to the New York City HIV Surveillance Registry. We examined age-specific and age-standardized mortality rates due to major CVDs. We compared mortality time trends among persons with HIV with the general population, and examined differences among HIV-infected persons by RNA level.

Results

There were 29 588 deaths reported among 145 845 HIV-infected persons. Ten percent of deaths were attributed to CVD as the underlying cause, including chronic ischemic heart dis

SUBMITTER: Hanna DB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5873364 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature