Hiv Infection, Antiretroviral Therapy Use And Other Predictors Of Selected Clinical Events In Kaiser Permanente
Hiv Infection, Antiretroviral Therapy Use And Other Predictors Of Selected Clinical Events In Kaiser Permanente
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infected patients in the Kaiser Permanente HIV registry wil be followed in the usual clinical care to estimate the rates of specified clinical events. The rates will be stratified by relevant characteristics like age, CD4 counts, HIV Viral Load (VL), HIV medication history. The rates in the HIV infected cohort wil be compared with the rates of these events in patients in the Kaiser Permanente database who are not infected with HIV.
All HIV infected patients in the database will be included without any sampling. A random sample of non-HIV infected patients will be included as comparator.
Inclusion Criteria:
HIV infection.
Exclusion Criteria:
None