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高活性抗逆转录病毒疗法和艾滋病毒感染注射药物使用者的生存率
Evan Wood1, Robert S Hogg, Viviane Dias Lima
1British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
JAMA
|August 5, 2008
概括
接受高活性抗逆转录病毒疗法 (HAART) 的HIV感染注射药物使用者 (IDU) 的生存率与非IDU相似. 这项研究没有发现任何证据表明注射药物使用会对HAART的HIV患者的长期结果产生负面影响.
科学领域:
- 医学研究 医学研究
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 传染性疾病 传染性疾病
背景情况:
- 高活性抗逆转录病毒疗法 (HAART) 对于治疗艾滋病毒感染至关重要.
- 从历史上看,感染艾滋病毒的注射药物使用者 (IDU) 由于生活方式的不稳定性和预后较差,因此面临HAART的障碍.
- 有限的长期数据存在,比较了注射药物使用者和其他患者群体之间的艾滋病毒治疗结果.
研究的目的:
- 调查和比较HIV感染患者开始HAART的生存率.
- 具体评估注射药物使用史是否与非注射药物使用者相比,与不同的生存结果有关.
主要方法:
- 加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省的一项基于人口的前性队列研究 (HOMER) 追踪了3116名未接受抗逆转录病毒药物的艾滋病毒感染患者.
- 患者在1996年至2006年期间启动了HAART,随访延长至2007年.
- 所有原因的死亡率是主要的结果指标,使用产品极限估计和Cox回归来分析.
主要成果:
- 这项研究包括915名注射药物使用者 (29.4%) 和2201名非注射药物使用者.
- 在研究期间,总死亡率为20.0%.
- 在HAART开始后84个月,注射药物使用者 (26.5%) 和非注射药物使用者 (21.6%) 的累积死亡率相似,注射药物使用者与非注射药物使用者的死亡危险比为1.09 (95%CI,0.92-1.29).
结论:
- 在本研究人群中,注射药物使用与接受HAART的HIV感染患者的生存率下降无关.
- 这些发现挑战了关于接受艾滋病毒治疗的注射药物使用者的预后的先前假设.
- 这些结果支持向艾滋病毒感染的注射药物使用者提供HAART,表明可比的长期益处.
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