Epidemiological characteristics of HIV infected Korean: Korea HIV/AIDS Cohort Studyopen access
- Authors
- Choi Y.; Choi B.Y.; Kim S.M.; Kim S.I.; Kim J.; Choi J.Y.; Kim S.-W.; Song J.Y.; Kim Y.J.; Park D.W.; Kim H.Y.; Choi H.-J.; Kee M.-K.; Shin Y.H.; Yoo M.
- Issue Date
- Sep-2019
- Publisher
- NLM (Medline)
- Keywords
- AIDS-related opportunistic infections; Antiretroviral therapy highly active; Communicable diseases; HIV
- Citation
- Epidemiology and health, v.41, pp e2019037
- Indexed
- SCOPUS
ESCI
KCI
- Journal Title
- Epidemiology and health
- Volume
- 41
- Start Page
- e2019037
- URI
- https://scholarworks.korea.ac.kr/kumedicine/handle/2020.sw.kumedicine/2673
- DOI
- 10.4178/epih.e2019037
- ISSN
- 1225-3596
2092-7193
- Abstract
- OBJECTIVES: To manage evidence-based diseases, it is important to identify the characteristics of patients in each country. METHODS: The Korea HIV/AIDS Cohort Study seeks to identify the epidemiological characteristics of 1,442 Korean individuals with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection (12% of Korean individuals with HIV infection in 2017) who visited 21 university hospitals nationwide. The descriptive statistics were presented using the Korea HIV/AIDS cohort data (2006-2016). RESULTS: Men accounted for 93.3% of the total number of respondents, and approximately 55.8% of respondents reported having an acute infection symptom. According to the transmission route, infection caused by sexual contact accounted for 94.4%, of which 60.4% were caused by sexual contact with the same sex or both males and females. Participants repeatedly answered the survey to decrease depression and anxiety scores. Of the total participants, 89.1% received antiretroviral therapy (ART). In the initial ART, 95.3% of patients were treated based on the recommendation. The median CD4 T-cell count at the time of diagnosis was 229.5 and improved to 331 after the initial ART. Of the patients, 16.6% and 9.4% had tuberculosis and syphilis, respectively, and 26.7% had pneumocystis pneumonia. In the medical history, sexually transmitted infectious diseases showed the highest prevalence, followed by endocrine diseases. The main reasons for termination were loss to follow-up (29.9%) and withdrawal of consent (18.7%). CONCLUSIONS: Early diagnosis and ART should be performed at an appropriate time to prevent the development of new infection.
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