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ArticleJournal of racial and ethnic health disparities2020

Lower Mortality Rates from Cryptococcosis in Women and Whites with Human Immunodeficiency Virus in the United States.

Giovana Jaen, Joanna Drowos, Charles H Hennekens, Robert S Levine

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Article in Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Giovana JaenDepartment of Integrated Medical Science, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Building 71, Suite 215, Boca Raton, FL, 33431, USA.
Joanna DrowosDepartment of Integrated Medical Science, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Building 71, Suite 215, Boca Raton, FL, 33431, USA. jdrowos@health.fau.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-4817-5566
Charles H HennekensDepartment of Integrated Medical Science, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Building 71, Suite 215, Boca Raton, FL, 33431, USA.
Robert S LevineDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, 3701 Kirby Drive, Suite 600, Houston, TX, 77098, USA.
Florida Atlantic University · USBaylor College of Medicine · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cryptococcosis is an opportunistic mycotic infection often found in pigeon droppings and other bird excrement. This serious disease is often fatal and, not unexpectedly, far more common in patients with immune deficiency, including those with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). It has been hypothesized that women with cryptococcosis and HIV have a more favorable mortality experience than men. In addition, the availability of highly active anti-retroviral therapy (ART) for HIV in the United States (US) has been associated with greater racial disparities in mortality. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) database afforded a unique opportunity to explore mortality rates due to cryptococcosis by gender and race in the US among patients with HIV from 1999 to 2016. Mortality rate ratios from cryptococcosis were significantly lower in women and whites with HIV. These descriptive data lead to the formulation of hypotheses requiring testing in analytic studies designed a priori to do so and pose clinical and public health challenges in reducing mortality from cryptococcosis in patients with HIV.

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Health Status DisparitiesAdultBlack or African AmericanComorbidityCryptococcosisFemaleHIV InfectionsHumansMaleSex FactorsUnited StatesWhite PeopleCryptococcosisGender inequalitiesHIVMortalityRacial inequalities

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PMID31664674
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