Health Care Consumption, Psychiatric Diagnoses, and Pharmacotherapy 1 and 2 Years Before and After Newly Diagnosed HIV: A Case-Control Study Nested in The Greater Stockholm HIV Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We compare individuals with newly diagnosed HIV with sex-, age-, and socioeconomic status-matched HIV-negative controls, with the aim of studying the frequency of health care visits, the types of clinics visited, registered diagnoses, and psychopharmacotherapy.

Methods

The data were collected through the Stockholm Region administrative database (Stockholm Regional Health Care Data Warehouse) for men and women (people) living with newly diagnosed HIV (PLWH) in their medical records (930 men, 450 women) and controls. The odds ratios (ORs) with 99% confidence intervals (CIs) for psychiatric comorbidities and relevant pharmacotherapies were calculated during the 2011-2018 period.

Results

Substance use disorder was higher in PLWH than in controls, before and afte

SUBMITTER: Wandell P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9553255 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature