Death after diagnosis of noncommunicable disease comorbid conditions, stratified by injection drug use.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Describe all-cause mortality associated with history of injection drug use (IDU) after a validated diagnosis of four noncommunicable disease (NCD) diagnoses: end-stage liver disease (ESLD); end-stage renal disease (ESRD); cancer; or myocardial infarction (MI) or stroke.

Design

We followed four cohorts of persons in continuity HIV care in the Johns Hopkins HIV Clinic with a validated diagnosis of ESLD (n = 67), ESRD (n = 187), cancer (n = 424), and MI or stroke (n = 213) from 1996 through approximately 2014.

Methods

Crude and adjusted Cox proportional hazards models to estimate hazard ratios for death after a validated diagnosis of one of four NCD diagnoses associated with history of IDU as an HIV acquisition risk factor.

Results

History of IDU was not

SUBMITTER: Lesko CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6301107 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature