作者
Lara Tavoschi, Joana Gomes Dias, Anastasia Pharris, Daniela Schmid, André Sasse, Dominique Van Beckhoven, Tonka Varleva, Tatjana Nemeth Blazic, Linos Hadjihannas, Maria Koliou, Marek Maly, Susan Cowan, Kristi Rüütel, Kirsi Liitsola, Mika Salminen, Françoise Cazein, Josiane Pillonel, Florence Lot, Barbara Gunsenheimer-Bartmeyer, Stavros Patrinos, Dimitra Paraskeva, Maria Dudas, Haraldur Briem, Gudrun Sigmundsdottir, Derval Igoe, Kate O'Donnell, Darina O'Flanagan, Barbara Suligoi, Šarlote Konova, Sabine Erne, Irma Caplinskiene, Aurélie Fischer, Jackie Maistre Melillo, Tanya Melillo, Eline Op de Coul, Hans Blystad, Magdalena Rosinska, Isabel Aldir, Helena Gomes Dias, Mariana Mardarescu, Peter Truska, Irena Klavs, Asunción Díaz, Maria Axelsson, Valerie Delpech
发表日期
2017/11/1
期刊
The lancet HIV
卷号
4
期号
11
页码范围
e514-e521
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Background
The HIV burden is increasing in older adults in the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA). We investigated factors associated with HIV diagnosis in older adults in the 31 EU/EEA countries during a 12 year period.
Methods
In this analysis of surveillance data, we compared data from older people (aged ≥50 years) with those from younger people (aged 15–49 years). We extracted new HIV diagnoses reported to the European Surveillance System between Jan 1, 2004, and Dec 31, 2015, and stratified them by age, sex, migration status, transmission route, and CD4 cell count. We defined late diagnosis as CD4 count of less than 350 cells per μL at diagnosis and diagnosis with advanced HIV disease as less than 200 cells per μL. We compared the two age groups with the χ2 test for difference, and used linear regression analysis to assess temporal trends.
Findings
During the study …
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