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Title: Frequency of non-AIDS defining events in patients infected with HIV in an outpatient clinic in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Autores: Asmar Vargas, Guillermo A.
Asmar, Mylene
Tapia-Barredo, Leandro
Paulino-Ramírez, Robert
Researchers (UNIBE): Asmar Vargas, Guillermo A. 
Asmar, Mylene 
Tapia-Barredo, Leandro 
Paulino-Ramírez, Robert 
Affiliations: Instituto de Medicina Tropical y Salud Global (IMTSAG) 
Instituto de Medicina Tropical y Salud Global (IMTSAG) 
Instituto de Medicina Tropical y Salud Global (IMTSAG) 
Instituto de Medicina Tropical y Salud Global (IMTSAG) 
Research area: Ciencias de la Salud
Issue Date: 2019
Publisher: The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Source: The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 101(5), 565
Journal: The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 
Volume: 101
Issue: 5
Start page: 565
End page: 565
Conference: ASTMH 68th Annual Meeting , Maryland, USA
Abstract: 
Chronic Liver Disease accounted for 26.3% of the presented non-AIDS defining events. Hypercholesterolemia accounted for 20%, Dyslipidemia 17.5%, Chronic Kidney Disease 6.3% and Anal Dysplasia 3.8% of the cases. Male patients were the most commonly affected gender representing 55.4% cases, followed by female patients with 35.4% cases. The most affected vulnerable population were MSM with 18.5% cases, sexual workers accounted for 15.4% of cases. 91% were adherent to HAART. 82% cases had a cd4+/cd8+ proportion <1. Although most of the patients that were studied remained adherent to the antiretroviral therapy non-AIDS defining events were still observed and the proportion of CD4 + / CD8 + lymphocytes remained <1 in the majority of the cases, reflecting the immunosenescence that can be observed in the vast majority of HIV-infected patients, possibly increasing their risk of suffering a defining or non-defining event of AIDS. The vulnerable populations of MSM and sexual workers affected with higher frequency.
URI: http://cris.unibe.edu.do/handle/123456789/275
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.abstract2019
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