HIV/AIDS

Studies from University of Pittsburgh provide new data on HIV/AIDS

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, November 17th, 2008

In this recent report, researchers in the United States conducted a study "To determine the rates of non-human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-related comorbidities and their impact on survival in hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HCV-HIV coinfected persons oil dialysis. We identified HCV-infected subjects and diagnoses of medical and psychiatric comorbidities in the United States Renal Data System using ICD-9 codes."

"Logistic regression was used to determine the odds of comorbidities and predictors of mortality. We identified 5310 HCV-infected and 427 HCV-HIV-coinfected subjects. The latter were younger, more likely to be male, black race, and had a lower body mass index....

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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2008-11-17)

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