Study Findings on HIV/AIDS Are Outlined in Reports from Chongqing Public Health Medical Center (Independent Risk Factors for Deaths due to AIDS in Chongqing, China: Does Age Matter?)

2021 FEB 25 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at AIDS Daily -- Investigators discuss new findings in HIV/AIDS. According to news reporting originating from Chongqing, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “People living with HIV (PLWH) are aging worldwide, and different management strategies may be required for older and younger PLWH.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Chongqing Public Health Medical Center: “However, demographic characteristics, illness distribution, mortality, and independent risk factors in the PLWH population in China are not yet fully understood, especially in patients aged 50 years or older. We conducted a retrospective analysis of 4445 HIV-positive Chinese inpatients in Chongqing, China. The mortality rate in patients 50 years or older (the older group) was significantly higher than that in those under 50 years (the younger group) (p < 0.001). In the younger group, independent risk factors for death included: nadir CD4+ T-cell counts <200 cells/mL, not owning medical healthcare insurance, not being on cART, injection drug use, and having one of the following comorbidities: Pneumocystis pneumonia, cryptococcal meningitis, AIDS malignancy, non-AIDS malignancy, and kidney disease. In the older group, independent predictors of death included: being urban residents, nadir CD4+ T-cell counts <200 cells/mL, not being on cART, and having comorbidities such as Pneumocystis pneumonia, hepatitis C, talaromycosis, non-AIDS malignancy, and kidney disease.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Demographic characteristics, illness distribution, mortality, and independent risk factors for death in HIV-positive patients differ between the older group and the younger group, indicating that a changing suite of medical and allied support services may be required the for management of older PLWH.”

For more information on this research see: Independent Risk Factors for Deaths due to AIDS in Chongqing, China: Does Age Matter?. Frontiers in Medicine, 2021,7. (Frontiers in Medicine - http://www.frontiersin.org/medicine). The publisher for Frontiers in Medicine is Frontiers Media S.A.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2020.586390.

Our news journalists report that more information may be obtained by contacting Yihong Zhou, Division of Infectious Diseases, Chongqing Public Health Medical Center, Chongqing, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Zhongping Yang, Min Liu, Yanqiu Lu, Yuanyuan Qin, Xiaoqing He, Yanming Zeng, Vijay Harypursat, Yaokai Chen. Our reports deliver fact-based news of research and discoveries from around the world.