MEDICAL CONDITIONS, AGE AND SEX STRUCTURE OF PATIENTS INFECTED WITH HIV AT EMERGENCY HOSPITAL

Abstract

We retrospectively studied the age, sex structure and medical conditions of urgent pathology among HIV-infected persons at Sklifosovsky Research Institute for Emergency Medicine. For the period from 2008 to 2015, the number of patient’s hospitalizations with HIV to the emergency hospital increased in 1,5 times as among men (R2 =0,63, p=0,0188), and women (R2 = 0,84, p=0,0013). The greatest number of admissions HIV-infected persons registered at the emergency departments (R2 =0,57, p=0,03). The main share of people with HIV infection were citizens in the age groups 18-30 and 31-40 years old. At the same time, we were revealed multidirectional trends connected with decreasing number of hospitalized patients in the age group of 18-30 years (R2 = 0,51, p = 0,04) and increasing in groups of 31-40 (R2 = 0,71, p = 0,008) and 41-50 years (R2 = 0,89, p = 0,0004). The share of HIV-infected men decreased from 68,1 to 65,1% while women have increased from 31,9 to 34,9%. The differentiation of the epidemic process for HIV-infection among patients in different clinical departments noticed.

Keywords

• hiv
• hiv-infection
• prevalence
• hospital
• emergency room
• retrospective study