"Is the Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Related Kaposi's sarcoma Epidemic Coming to an End? Insights from the Tricontinental Seroconverter Study."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Epidemiology, "A decline in the proportion of Kaposi's sarcoma among AIDS cases since the 1980s has been attributed to changes in sexual behavior among homosexual men and a decreasing exposure to a hypothesized Kaposi's sarcoma cofactor. Recent studies have shown that the incidence rate of Kaposi's sarcoma has remained relatively stable, which seems to argue against the hypothesis of a declining exposure to the putative cofactor. To examine this paradox, we evaluated the incidence of Kaposi's sarcoma, using Cox proportional hazard analyses, and performed a simulation to compare incidences of different AIDS outcomes among 407...

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