Melissa Marzán-Rodríguez, Diego E Zavala Segarra, Juan Carlas Orengo Valverde, Nelson Varas-Díaz, Sandra Miranda De León, Eliseo Acevedo-Díaz
{"title":"[Survival analysis in people diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in Puerto Rico].","authors":"Melissa Marzán-Rodríguez, Diego E Zavala Segarra, Juan Carlas Orengo Valverde, Nelson Varas-Díaz, Sandra Miranda De León, Eliseo Acevedo-Díaz","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>After the introduction of HAART, the HIV/AIDS epidemiological trends has shown an increasing in the survival rates. HAART has dramatically improved the life expectancy of HIV/AIDS. The objective of this study was to estimate survival in people diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in Puerto Rico (PR) from 2003-2011. A population-based study using the PR HIV Surveillance System was implemented. A total of N = 9,290 people were diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in PR for 2003-2011 period. Cox regression models for survival analysis were assessed. Survival at 6 years after diagnosis in HIV patients was 0.87 (CI95%: 0.09, 0.72) when compare with AIDS patients at same time of diagnosis was 0.57 (CI95%: 0.55, 0.60) p<0.001. Intravenous drug users [IDU] have less probability of survival at 5 years after diagnosis when compare with other transmission modes 0.69 (CI95%: 0.67, 0.71) p<0.001. Assertive prevention strategies must be developed and implemented in PR for IDU's in order to increase their survival rates.</p>","PeriodicalId":92441,"journal":{"name":"Revista Puertorriquena de medicina y salud publica","volume":"66 ","pages":"8-14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6097805/pdf/nihms976325.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"36411623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}