Abstract
Describe all-cause mortality associated with history of injection drug use (IDU) after a validated diagnosis of four noncommunicable disease (NCD) diagnoses: end-stage liver disease (ESLD); end-stage renal disease (ESRD); cancer; or myocardial infarction (MI) or stroke.Design:We followed four cohorts of persons in continuity HIV care in the Johns Hopkins HIV Clinic with a validated diagnosis of ESLD (n=67), ESRD (n=187), cancer (n=424), and MI or stroke (n=213) from 1996 through approximately 2014.Methods:Crude and adjusted Cox proportional hazards models to estimate hazard ratios for death after a validated diagnosis of one of four NCD diagnoses associated with history of IDU as an HIV acquisition risk factor.Results:History of IDU was not associated with death after ESRD (adjusted hazard ratio 0.98, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.57-1.68). Associations between history of IDU and death after ESLD and MI or stroke were weak, imprecise and not statistically significant (hazard ratio 1.17, 95% CI 0.63-2.19; hazard ratio 1.21, 95% CI 0.80-1.83). History of IDU was not associated with death after cancer in the first 6 months, but subsequently, the adjusted hazard ratio was 2.03 (95% CI 1.26-3.27).Conclusion:Persons with a history of injection drug use and non-IDU had strikingly similar risk and hazard of mortality after several major NCD diagnoses. Mortality after cancer diagnosis in this cohort was higher for persons with a history of IDU than those without; this may be because of being diagnosed with a different mix of specific sites and stages of cancers.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 285-293 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | AIDS |
Volume | 33 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 1 2019 |
Keywords
- cancer
- end-stage liver disease
- end-stage renal disease
- injection drug use
- myocardial infarction
- stroke
- survival
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Immunology and Allergy
- Immunology
- Infectious Diseases