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The survival experience of older and younger adults with AIDS
— is there a growing gap in survival? | | Author(s) | Amy C Justice, Sharon Weissman |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 20, no 6, November 1998 |
| Pages | pp 665-685 |
| Keywords | AIDS ; Death ; Older people ; Young adults [20-25] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Older people with HIV infection die faster than younger counterparts, but it is not known whether age-associated survival is changing over time. In this study, the authors used the Centers for Disease Control data set of adult cases of AIDS reported from 1 January 1981 to 31 December 1994 in the US, to investigate age associated differences in survival by year of diagnosis. A total of 433,354 adults with AIDS were reported during this interval. Of these, 10.3% were older than age 50. In 1983-1984, median survival for older and younger people was 153 versus 274 days, respectively. By 1991-1992, median survival had improved for both groups - 396 and 731 days, respectively. However, the relative and absolute gap in survival grew. While a substantially larger proportion of older adults died within 90 days of diagnosis, the overall trend of an increasing age-associated gap in survival remained when these were excluded from the analysis. Older and younger people with AIDS have achieved prolonged survival, but the age-associated gap in survival has grown. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981116403 A |
| Classmark | CQTT: CW: B: SD6: 7T |
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