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Changing patterns of morbidity and mortality in HIV disease
1Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Disease, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195, USA. calabrl@ccf.org
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
|February 28, 2001
Abstract:
In patients with HIV infection, highly active antiretroviral therapy is improving survival, but at the price of a variety of metabolic side effects. Patterns of morbidity and mortality are changing: the leading cause of death is now kidney or liver failure instead of opportunistic infections.