Listy Biometryczne - Biometrical Letters Vol. 32(1995), No. 1, 23-33
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NON-AIDS RELATED MORTALITY IN THE HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION Antonino Salvaggio Istituto di Igiene e Medicina Preventiva, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Via F. Sforza, 35-20122 Milano, Italy |
The author presents an example of how non-AIDS related mortality may influence the apparent progression from HIV infection to AIDS. In HIV infected subjects, non-AIDS mortality modifies the incidence counts of AIDS cases. These modifications appear particularly important in groups of subjects with high levels of non-AIDS related mortality. For example, in Italian intravenous drug users, hypothesising a constant, non-AIDS related mortality hazard of 0.01 year"1, expected AIDS counts result asymptotically reduced by more than 10 per cent.
