Abstract
Methods COMESEM cohort is a prospective, population-based HIV-infected patient cohort of the south and east Greater Madrid (Spain). To analyze loss to of our patients, we collected the following data from our databases: age, year of diagnosis, gender, date of the last visit, risk group and AIDS diagnosis. We considered as loss to follow-up, patients who were alive in their last visit, had not requested transfer to another medical facility and were not registered as dead in the Mortality Registry of the Autonomous Community of Madrid. It was also required that at least 6 months had elapsed since their last visit. Loss to follow-up of immigrant and Spanish-born patients were compared by means of Kaplan-Meyer curves (long-rank test).
Highlights
Open AccessLoss to follow-up in HIV immigrant patients
Since there were statistically significant differences in the percentage of immigrant patients between both time periods (3.8% vs. 43.5%, p = 0.0001), we carried out the analysis by stratifying into the periods
In immigrant patients: the percentage of women increased in the second period (40% vs. 52%, p = 0.0003), so did the sexual transmission risk group (67.6% vs. 90.3%), and AIDS diagnoses in this population diminished (37.4% vs. 24.7%, p = 0,0001)
Summary
Loss to follow-up in HIV immigrant patients. Alcalá de Henares, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain, 5H. Published: 10 November 2008 Journal of the International AIDS Society 2008, 11(Suppl 1):P173 doi:10.1186/1758-2652-11-S1-P173. Abstracts of the Ninth International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1758-2652-11-S1-info.pdf
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