• Medicine · Jun 2024

    Disparities in mortality trends of adults with HIV in the USA: A comprehensive examination across 2 decades.

    • Hamza Ashraf, Aimen Nadeem, Haider Ashfaq, Tehniat Fatima, Sophia Ahmed, Zain Ali Nadeem, and Aalaa Saleh.
    • Department of Medicine, Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan.
    • Medicine (Baltimore). 2024 Jun 21; 103 (25): e38570e38570.

    AbstractApproximately 38 million people worldwide are affected by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), with 4000 new infections daily. While literature explores HIV mortality among the elderly in the US, there is an underrepresentation of mortality data for adults. By scrutinizing mortality trends based on demographic factors such as gender, race or ethnicity, age groups, and geographic location, the study seeks to uncover patterns that may facilitate a longitudinal perspective for tailoring interventions and allocating resources effectively. Crude death rates and age-adjusted mortality rates (AAMR) per 100,000 individuals were calculated using HIV mortality data (ICD-10 Codes B20-24) from CDC WONDER database. Permutation test was used to calculate annual percentage changes in AAMR with 95% confidence interval. Average annual percentage changes were computed as weighted average of annual percentage changes. Between 1999 to 2020, US adult HIV deaths totaled 225,396 (AAMR: 5.03), with a significantly decreasing average annual percentage changes (-5.94). Males exhibited a 3-fold higher AAMR (7.50) than females (2.67). Non-Hispanic Blacks had the highest AAMR (21.82), while Non-Hispanic Asians had the lowest (0.67). The South and Northeast regions had the highest AAMRs (6.91 and 6.33, respectively). Notably, the District of Columbia had an alarmingly high mortality rate of 39.9, while North Dakota had the lowest (0.7). Urban regions (5.47) had double the mortality rates of rural regions (2.70). Mortality rate peaked in age groups 45 to 54 (8.65) and 35 to 44 (7.42). While overall HIV mortality is declining, disparities persist among demographics. Targeted interventions are crucial to improve preventive measures and healthcare access for disproportionately affected groups.Copyright © 2024 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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