PMID: 9419928Jul 1, 1997Paper

Outline of the Human Retrovirus Registry: profile of a Puerto Rican HIV infected population

Boletín de la Asociación Médica de Puerto Rico
M A GómezR Hunter

Abstract

To present the general socio-demographic profile, some risk related parameters and elements of the clinical spectrum of disease at presentation, of those HIV/AIDS patients enrolled in the Human Retrovirus Registry. This is a prospective longitudinal cohort study, which has been identifying since May 1992, adults or adolescents 18 years or older with AIDS or HIV infection at the time they present to our health care facilities: University Hospital Ramon Ruiz Arnau and the Bayamon Immunology Clinic. The present analysis include patients enrolled between May 1992 and December 1996 (n = 1520). The measurement instrument is a modular questionnaire which actually includes 237 variables including socio-demographic data, risk variables, lifestyle and affective parameters, clinical and immunological variables and therapeutic data. The mean baseline age of the 1520 patients was 35.7 years of age. Most participants were male (77.7%) and Hispanic (98.8%). Forty-five percent (45.1%) of the population were single and only 21.9% were married; nevertheless, fifty-one percent (51.7%) indicated to have children. 70% reported to be unemployed. Injecting Drug Usage appears as the first exposure mode (54.3%), followed by heterosexual contact cases (...Continue Reading

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