Table 2.
Causes of Death in the Women’s Interagency HIV Study Cohort
| Cause of Death | HIV Infected
|
Not HIV infected
|
|---|---|---|
| Number of Deaths (Mortality per 1000 Woman-Years) | Number of Deaths (Mortality per 1000 Woman-Years) | |
| Definite AIDS | ||
| Opportunistic conditions | 119 (15.8) | |
| AIDS-related malignancy | 19 (2.5) | |
| Probable AIDS | ||
| Unspecified AIDS | 90 (12) | |
| Sepsis | 28 (3.7) | |
| Unspecified pneumonia | 24 (3.2) | |
| Other lung disease | 9 (1.2) | |
| Metabolic acidosis | 3 (0.4) | |
| Encephalopathy | 1 (0.1) | |
| Gastrointestinal disease | 1 (0.1) | |
| Total AIDS | 294 (39) | |
| Non-AIDS | ||
| Liver disease | 19 (2.5) | 1 (0.5) |
| Malignancy | 12 (1.6) | 4 (2) |
| Drug overdose | 16 (2.1) | 2 (1) |
| Homicide/suicide/accident | 10 (1.3) | 4 (2) |
| Cardiac | 10 (1.3) | |
| Gastrointestinal | 9 (1.2) | |
| Kidney | 6 (0.8) | 1 (0.5) |
| Neurologic | 5 (0.7) | |
| Infection | 2 (0.3) | |
| Autoimmune | 1 (0.1) | 1 (0.5) |
| Multiple causes | 1 (0.1) | 1 (0.5) |
| Total non-AIDS | 91 (12.1) | |
AIDS = acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; HIV = human immunodeficiency virus.