Projections of AIDS Morbidity and Mortality in San Francisco

George F. Lemp, Susan F. Payne, George W. Rutherford, Nancy A. Hessol, Warren Winkelstein, James A. Wiley, Andrew R. Moss, Richard E. Chaisson, Robert T. Chen, David W. Feigal, Pauline A. Thomas, David Werdegar

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Abstract

To develop a model for predicting acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) morbidity in San Francisco, Calif, through June 1993, we combined annual human immunodeficiency virus seroconversion rates for homosexual and bisexual men and for heterosexual intravenous drug users with estimates of the cumulative proportion of the population with AIDS by duration of human immunodeficiency virus infection and with estimates of the size of the at-risk populations. We projected AIDS mortality by applying Kaplan-Meier estimates of survival time following diagnosis to the projected number of cases. The median incubation period for AIDS among homosexual and bisexual men infected with the human immunodeficiency virus was estimated to be 11.0 years (mean, 11.8 years; 95% confidence interval, 10.6 to 13.0 years). The model projects 12 349 to 17 022 cumulative cases of AIDS in San Francisco through June 1993, with 9966 to 12 767 cumulative deaths.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1497-1501
Number of pages5
JournalJAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
Volume263
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 16 1990

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  • General Medicine

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