The association between all-cause mortality and HIV acquisition risk groups in the United States, 2001–2014

Fatma M Shebl, Yiqi Qian, Julia H A Foote, Nattanicha Wattananimitgul, Krishna P Reddy, Anne M Neilan, Andrea L Ciaranello, Elena Losina, Kenneth A Freedberg and Emily P Hyle

PLOS ONE, 2023, vol. 18, issue 8, 1-12

Abstract: Objective: To investigate associations between all-cause mortality and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) acquisition risk groups among people without HIV in the United States. Methods: We used data from 23,657 (NHANES) participants (2001–2014) and the Linked Mortality File to classify individuals without known HIV into HIV acquisition risk groups: people who ever injected drugs (ever-PWID); men who have sex with men (MSM); heterosexually active people at increased risk for HIV (HIH), using low income as a proxy for increased risk. We used Cox proportional hazards models to estimate adjusted and unadjusted all-cause mortality hazard ratios (HR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI). Results: Compared with sex-specific heterosexually active people at average risk for HIV (HAH), the adjusted HR (95% CI) were: male ever-PWID 1.67 (1.14, 2.46), female ever-PWID 3.50 (2.04, 6.01), MSM 1.51 (1.00, 2.27), male HIH 1.68 (1.04, 2.06), female HIH 2.35 (1.87, 2.95), and male ever-PWID 1.67 (1.14, 2.46). Conclusions: Most people at increased risk for HIV in the US experience higher all-cause mortality than people at average risk. Strategies addressing social determinants that increase HIV risk should be incorporated into HIV prevention and other health promotion programs.

Date: 2023
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