2013
Closing the Gap: Increases in Life Expectancy among Treated HIV-Positive Individuals in the United States and Canada
Samji H, Cescon A, Hogg RS, Modur SP, Althoff KN, Buchacz K, Burchell AN, Cohen M, Gebo KA, Gill MJ, Justice A, Kirk G, Klein MB, Korthuis PT, Martin J, Napravnik S, Rourke SB, Sterling TR, Silverberg MJ, Deeks S, Jacobson LP, Bosch RJ, Kitahata MM, Goedert JJ, Moore R, Gange SJ, Research and Design of IeDEA F. Closing the Gap: Increases in Life Expectancy among Treated HIV-Positive Individuals in the United States and Canada. PLOS ONE 2013, 8: e81355. PMID: 24367482, PMCID: PMC3867319, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081355.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAntiretroviral therapyHIV-positive adultsMortality rateLife expectancyNorth American AIDS Cohort CollaborationHIV transmission risk groupTransmission risk groupsCombination antiretroviral therapyInjection drug useHIV-positive individualsCrude mortality rateComparable life expectancyBaseline CD4Cohort CollaborationART initiationCD4 countAge-specific mortality ratesRisk groupsPositive adultsGeneral populationDrug useAge 20Cells/AdultsAdditional year
2010
CD4 count at presentation for HIV care in the United States and Canada: Are those over 50 years more likely to have a delayed presentation?
Althoff KN, Gebo KA, Gange SJ, Klein MB, Brooks JT, Hogg RS, Bosch RJ, Horberg MA, Saag MS, Kitahata MM, Eron JJ, Napravnik S, Rourke SB, Gill MJ, Rodriguez B, Sterling TR, Deeks SG, Martin JN, Jacobson LP, Kirk GD, Collier AC, Benson CA, Silverberg MJ, Goedert JJ, McKaig RG, Thorne J, Rachlis A, Moore RD, Justice AC, for the North American AIDS Cohort Collaboration on Research and Design. CD4 count at presentation for HIV care in the United States and Canada: Are those over 50 years more likely to have a delayed presentation? AIDS Research And Therapy 2010, 7: 45. PMID: 21159161, PMCID: PMC3022663, DOI: 10.1186/1742-6405-7-45.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCD4 countHIV careRace/ethnicityFirst presentationNorth American AIDS Cohort CollaborationHIV transmission risk groupAge groupsAdvanced HIV diseaseHIV testing effortsLow CD4 countTransmission risk groupsMean CD4 countMedian CD4 countHIV transmission riskCohort CollaborationHIV diseaseInitial presentationRisk groupsClinical cohortProportion of individualsTransmission riskOlder individualsYoung adultsCohortYoung individuals