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- Title
Multiple cause-of-death data among people with AIDS in Italy: a nationwide cross-sectional study.
- Authors
Grande, Enrico; Zucchetto, Antonella; Suligoi, Barbara; Grippo, Francesco; Pappagallo, Marilena; Virdone, Saverio; Camoni, Laura; Taborelli, Martina; Regine, Vincenza; Serraino, Diego; Frova, Luisa
- Abstract
Background: Multiple cause-of-death (MCOD) data allow analyzing the contribution to mortality of conditions reported on the death certificate that are not selected as the underlying cause of death. Using MCOD data, this study aimed to fully describe the cause-specific mortality of people with AIDS (PWA) compared to people without AIDS. Methods: We conducted a nationwide investigation based on death certificates of 2,515 Italian PWA and 123,224 people without AIDS who had died between 2006 and 2010. The conditions most frequently associated with PWA mortality, compared to people without AIDS, were identified using an age-standardized proportion ratio (ASPR) calculated as the ratio between the age-standardized proportion of a specific cause among PWA and the same proportion among people without AIDS. Results: The most frequently reported conditions at death among PWA were infectious/parasitic diseases (52%), digestive (36%), respiratory (33%), and circulatory (32%) system diseases, and neoplasms (29%). All AIDS-defining conditions resulted highly associated (ASPR significantly greater than unity) with PWA deaths. Significant associations also emerged for leishmaniasis (ASPR = 188.0), encephalitis/myelitis/encephalomyelitis (ASPR = 14.3), dementia (ASPR = 13.1), chronic viral hepatitis (ASPR = 13.1), liver fibrosis/cirrhosis (ASPR = 4.4), pneumonia (ASPR = 4.4), anal (ASPR = 12.1) and liver (ASPR = 1.9) cancers, and Hodgkin's disease (ASPR = 3.1). Conclusions: Study findings identified the contribution of several non-AIDS-defining conditions on PWA mortality, emphasizing the need of preventive public health interventions targeting this population.
- Subjects
ITALY; MORTALITY of AIDS patients; AIDS; CONFIDENCE intervals; CAUSES of death; NOSOLOGY; RESEARCH funding; DEATH certificates; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Population Health Metrics, 2017, Vol 15, p1
- ISSN
1478-7954
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s12963-017-0135-3