Trends in death with tuberculosis during the AIDS era
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Deaths associated with tuberculosis have paralleled the rise of the AIDS epidemic. Data from the National Center for Health Statistics were analyzed for deaths with tuberculosis between 1980 and 1990 and/or deaths with AIDS between 1987 and 1990. In 1980, which was near the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, deaths with tuberculosis peaked among those aged 70 to 74. By 1985, there had been a decline in deaths with tuberculosis among those aged 50 to 79 and a slight increase among those aged 20 to 44. By 1990, there had been a significant increase in the deaths with tuberculosis among those aged 20 to 44, so that deaths with tuberculosis peaked among those aged 20 to 44 and those aged 70 to 74. In 1990, the proportions of tuberculosis deaths with AIDS among those aged 20 to 49 were 59% of whites, 49.5% of blacks and 65.1% of Hispanics. Death with tuberculosis among those aged 20 to 49 increased 362% between 1982 and 1990 in the five states with the highest rates of AIDS.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1993
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Increasing incidence of tuberculosis in a prison inmate population: association with HIV infection
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The rate of tuberculosis (TB) among inmates of the New York State prison system increased from 15.4 per 100,000 in 1976 to 105.5 per 100,000 in 1986. (Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection that usually causes nodules to form in the lungs, though it can affect other organs.) Fifty-six percent of inmates who acquired TB in 1985 and 1986 also had AIDS or were infected with the AIDS virus. AIDS virus infection can persist before development of the disease. All such inmates had the AIDS virus in their blood. Inmates who reported street drug use were almost 10 times more likely to develop TB. Most such cases are thought to be due to reactivation of latent infection. However, based on the strains of bacteria involved, three cases may have been due to transmission between inmates. TB transmissions within prisons is a real threat, necessitating tighter TB control measures in the prison system to counter the increased risk created by HIV infection.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1989
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Thromboembolic adverse events after use of recombinant human coagulation factor VIIa
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The recombinant human coagulation factor VIIa (rFVIIa) is used in the treatment of bleeding episodes in patients with hemophilia A or B and inhibitors to factor VIII to factor IX. It is reported that thromboembolic adverse effects followed the use of rFVIIA for unlabeled indications and occurred in arterial and venous systems, often resulting in serious morbidity and mortality.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2006
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