Chu S, Buehler J, Berkelman R; International Conference on AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS. 1990 Jun 20-23; 6: 311 (abstract no. Th.C.744).
Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of HIV infection on mortality in women of reproductive age in the United States. METHODS: We used final (1985-87) and provisional (1988) data from national vital statistics to describe HIV-related deaths among women aged 15-44 years. RESULTS: While other causes of death among women 15-44 years of age have remained relatively stable over the last decade, the death rate for HIV/AIDS quadrupled from 0.6/100,000 in 1985 to 2.5/100,000 in 1988 (representing 1,430 deaths). The age-adjusted death rate for black women (10.3/100,000) was 9 times the rate for white women (1.2/100,000). Most deaths occurred in women 25-34 years of age, for whom HIV-related deaths accounted for 11% and 3% of all deaths in black and white women, respectively. More detailed analyses were possible using final mortality data for 1987, when HIV infection became the eighth leading cause of death in women of reproductive age. The death rate in the Northeast (5.3/100,000) was 26 times the rate in the Midwest (0.2/100,000). Among black women 15-44 years of age in New York and New Jersey, HIV/AIDS was the leading cause of death, surpassing malignant neoplasms and heart disease. Among 1,157 death certificates which included any mention of HIV/AIDS, other leading diagnoses included drug abuse (27%), pneumonia and influenza (8%), Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and other AIDS-defining infections (7%), nephritis (6%), cardiovascular diseases (5%), respiratory diseases (5%), and anemias (4%). CONCLUSION: HIV/AIDS has emerged as a leading cause of death in women of reproductive age, especially in the Northeast and among black women, and is associated with a broad spectrum of HIV-related diseases.
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Keywords:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- African Americans
- African Continental Ancestry Group
- Aged
- Death Certificates
- Disease Outbreaks
- European Continental Ancestry Group
- Female
- HIV Infections
- HIV Seropositivity
- Humans
- New Jersey
- New York
- Pneumonia, Pneumocystis
- United States
- mortality
Other ID:
UI: 102182350
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