Mortality Among Persons Entering HIV Care Compared With the General U.S. Population : An Observational Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding advances in the care and treatment of adults with HIV as well as remaining gaps requires comparing differences in mortality between persons entering care for HIV and the general population.

Objective

To assess the extent to which mortality among persons entering HIV care in the United States is elevated over mortality among matched persons in the general U.S. population and trends in this difference over time.

Design

Observational cohort study.

Setting

Thirteen sites from the U.S. North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design.

Participants

82 766 adults entering HIV clinical care between 1999 and 2017 and a subset of the U.S. population matched on calendar time, age, sex, race/ethnicity, and county using U.S. mo

SUBMITTER: Edwards JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8453103 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature