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Document 0746
DOCN M9490746
TI The AIDS epidemic among Scandinavian women: 1980-1990.
DT 9411
AU Smith E; Hasseltvedt V; Bottiger M; Department of Epidemiology, Statens
Seruminstitut, Copenhagen,; Denmark.
SO AIDS. 1994 May;8(5):689-92. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/94338607
AB OBJECTIVE: To describe trends and patterns in the AIDS epidemic among
Scandinavian women with AIDS. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: All women with AIDS
reported to national surveillance units in Denmark, Norway and Sweden in
1980-1990 were included for analyses. RESULTS: The number of
heterosexually infected female AIDS cases increased over time.
AIDS-defining diseases varied with transmission categories, a variation
similar to that found among heterosexual Danish male AIDS cases.
Heterosexually infected women were more frequently diagnosed with
Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia than with oesophagus candidiasis compared
with intravenous drug using women. Twenty-five out of 56 heterosexually
infected women reported having a male partner who was bisexual or from a
Pattern II country, while one in four did not recognize any risk in
their sex partner(s). Survival time increased between 1980 and 1990 and
did not differ from survival in male AIDS cases. In a proportional
hazards model, age, year of diagnosis and the duration of known
HIV-positivity before development of AIDS had an independent impact on
survival. The number of women known to be HIV-positive for more than 1
year before diagnosis of AIDS increased over time, although the number
of women tested for HIV close to the development of AIDS was especially
high among heterosexually infected women. CONCLUSION: Increasing numbers
of heterosexually infected women are being diagnosed with AIDS in
Scandinavia.
DE Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*EPIDEMIOLOGY/MORTALITY Adolescence
Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over AIDS-Related Opportunistic
Infections/EPIDEMIOLOGY Blood Transfusion/ADVERSE EFFECTS Female
Human HIV Infections/TRANSMISSION Life Tables Middle Age Population
Surveillance Proportional Hazards Models Risk Factors
Scandinavia/EPIDEMIOLOGY Sex Behavior/STATISTICS & NUMER DATA Sexual
Partners Substance Abuse, Intravenous/EPIDEMIOLOGY JOURNAL ARTICLE
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).