Cause-specific mortality among HIV-infected people in Ontario, 1995-2014: a population-based retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Risk factors for cause-specific mortality have not been widely studied among people with HIV infection. Our objectives were to estimate rates of and risk factors for all-cause and cause-specific mortality from 1995 to 2014 among HIV-infected people in Ontario.

Methods

We conducted a population-based retrospective cohort study using provincial health databases of people with HIV infection who were aged 16 years or more, were residents of Ontario between 1995 and 2014, and had HIV infection according to a previously validated algorithm. We used International Classification of Diseases codes to classify the underlying cause of death and estimated age-adjusted mortality rates per 100 person-years for 1995 to 2014. We used descriptive statistics to characterize the coh

SUBMITTER: Burchell AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6350837 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature