Impact of HIV Infection on Mortality in a Cohort of Injection Drug Users

The prevalence of HIV has been rising among injection drug users (IDUs) and AIDS is now an important cause of death among that population. We tracked mortality and recorded detailed causes of death in the Vancouver Injection Drug Users Study (VIDUS). This is an open cohort of over 1,400 active IDUs...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2001-12, Vol.28 (4), p.351-357
Hauptverfasser:	Tyndall, Mark W, Craib, Kevin J. P, Currie, Sue, Li, Kathy, OʼShaughnessy, Michael V, Schechter, Martin T
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adult Age Factors Aged Biological and medical sciences British Columbia - epidemiology Cause of Death Cocaine Cohort Studies Deaths Drug Overdose Drug use Experimental viral diseases and models Female HIV HIV Infections - epidemiology HIV Infections - mortality Human immunodeficiency virus Humans Infections Infectious diseases Injections Male Medical sciences Methadone - administration & dosage Middle Aged Miscellaneous Mortality Narcotics - administration & dosage Population Surveillance Public health. Hygiene Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine Substance Abuse, Intravenous - epidemiology Substance Abuse, Intravenous - mortality Surveys and Questionnaires Viral diseases
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