Survival after Diagnosis of AIDS: A Prospective Observational Study of 2625 Patients
Author(s)
Mocroft, Amanda; Youle, Michael; Morcinek, Julian; Sabin, Caroline A.; Gazzard, Brian; Johnson, Margaret A.; Phillips, Andrew N.
Abstract
AIDS patients in the 1990s are less likely to die of their initial AIDS-related illness than those diagnosed before 1987 but overall survival rates appear to be unchanged. A study of 2,625 AIDS patients in Britain between 1982 and July 1995 found that patients diagnosed after 1987 had better survival rates during the three months after diagnosis. They also had lower CD4 lymphocyte counts, indicating the disease had progressed further than pre-1987 diagnoses. For the initial three months after diagnosis, patients with Kaposi’s sarcoma or oesophageal candidiasis had lower risks of death than Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia patients.
