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[The significance of AIDS for mortality in Berlin (West)]
W K Baier1, J Haberland, J Schott
1Robert Koch-Institut Berlin.
Gesundheitswesen (Bundesverband Der Arzte Des Offentlichen Gesundheitsdienstes (Germany))
|November 1, 1994
Abstract:
Following a long-term decline, death rates due to infectious diseases in West-Berlin men have dramatically increased since 1983. The Berlin mortality statistics introduced AIDS as a specific cause of death only in 1989. However, opportunistic infections, a negligible quantity until 1983, and pointing to AIDS as the underlying cause, show a steep increase in the mid and late eighties. In terms of Potential Years of Life Lost, AIDS-related mortality amounts to 8 percent of total mortality in West-Berlin men in 1989/1990.