This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (149)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in JAMA  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Susan Y. Chu, PhD; James W. Buehler, MD; Ruth L. Berkelman, MD

JAMA. 1990;264(2):225-229.

Abstract
To assess the effect of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) on mortality in US women 15 to 44 years of age and to identify associated causes of death, we examined final (1980 through 1987) and provisional (1988) national mortality statistics. Between 1985 and 1988, the death rate for HIV/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) quadrupled (0.6 per 100 000 to 2.5 per 100 000), and by 1987, HIV/AIDS had become one of the 10 leading causes of death. In 1988, the death rate for black women (10.3 per 100 000) was nine times the rate for white women (1.2 per 100 000). The majority of deaths in both black and white women occurred in women 25 to 34 years of age, for whom HIV-related deaths accounted for 11% and 3% of all deaths in 1988, respectively. Among 1157 death certificates that included any mention of HIV/AIDS in 1987, other leading diagnoses included drug abuse (27%), Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (20%), other pneumonias (14%), septicemia (10%), other infections not in the AIDS surveillance definition (7%), nephritis (6%), liver diseases (4%), and anemias (4%). If current mortality trends continue, HIV/AIDS can be expected to become one of the five leading causes of death by 1991 in women of reproductive age. Because women infected with HIV are the major source of infection for infants, these trends in AIDS mortality in women forecast the impact of HIV on mortality in children as well.

(JAMA. 1990;264:225-229)

Author Affiliations
From the Division of HIV/AIDS, Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control, Public Health Service, US Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Ga.

Footnotes
Presented in part as a poster exhibit at the Sixth International Conference on AIDS, San Francisco, Calif, June 21, 1990.

Reprint requests to Surveillance Branch, Division of HIV/AIDS, Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control, Mailstop G-29, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30333 (Dr Chu).

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?

THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES

The Influence of HIV-Related Support Groups on Survival in Women Who Lived With HIV: A Pilot Study
Summers et al.
Psychosomatics 2000;41:262-268.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

Defensive Mothering in HIV-Positive Mothers
Ingram and Hutchinson
Qual Health Res 1999;9:243-258.
ABSTRACT  

Is HIV Infection a Cofactor for Cervical Squamous Cell Neoplasia?
Mandelblatt et al.
Cancer Epidemiol. Biomarkers Prev. 1999;8:97-106.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT  

The Implications of Crime Control Policy on HIV/AIDS-Related Risk among Women Prisoners
Marquart et al.
Crime Delinquency 1999;45:82-98.
ABSTRACT  

Diagnosis of Pediatric Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection by Means of a Commercially Available Polymerase Chain Reaction Gene Amplification
Nelson et al.
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 1996;150:40-45.
ABSTRACT  

Survival and Disease Progression According to Gender of Patients With HIV Infection: The Terry Beirn Community Programs for Clinical Research on AIDS
Melnick et al.
JAMA 1994;272:1915-1921.
ABSTRACT  

HIV and Tuberculosis Infection in San Francisco's Homeless Adults: Prevalence and Risk Factors in a Representative Sample
Zolopa et al.
JAMA 1994;272:455-461.
ABSTRACT  

Ultrasound Examination of Pregnant Women Infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Goldstein
Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography 1994;10:84-88.
ABSTRACT  

AIDS, Health Policy, and Ethics
Kaplan and Krell-Long
Affilia 1993;8:157-170.
ABSTRACT  

Trends in Death With Tuberculosis During the AIDS Era
Braun et al.
JAMA 1993;269:2865-2868.
ABSTRACT  

THE MULTIPLE JEOPARDY OF RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER FOR AIDS RISK AMONG WOMEN
OSMOND et al.
Gender Society 1993;7:99-120.
ABSTRACT  

Estimates of the Number of Motherless Youth Orphaned by AIDS in the United States
Michaels and Levine
JAMA 1992;268:3456-3461.
ABSTRACT  

Surgical Sterilization Among Women and Use of Condoms--Baltimore, 1989-1990
JAMA 1992;268:1833-1834.
 

Spectrum of Disease in Persons With Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in the United States
Farizo et al.
JAMA 1992;267:1798-1805.
ABSTRACT  

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in Women
Spence and Reboli
ANN INTERN MED 1991;115:827-829.
ABSTRACT  

Epidemiology of Women With AIDS in the United States, 1981 Through 1990: A Comparison With Heterosexual Men With AIDS
Ellerbrock et al.
JAMA 1991;265:2971-2975.
ABSTRACT  

Current Trends in Mortality Attributable to HIV Infection/AIDS--United States, 1981-1990
Arch Dermatol 1991;127:621-622.
ABSTRACT  

Clarification of AIDS Mortality in Women
Berkelman et al.
JAMA 1991;265:1952-1952.
ABSTRACT  

Mortality Attributable to HIV Infection/ AIDS--United States, 1981-1990
JAMA 1991;265:848-849.
 

Community-Based AIDS Research
Merton
Eval Rev 1990;14:502-537.
ABSTRACT