Document 2366
 DOCN  M94A2366
 TI    Natural history of AIDS in the city of Sao Paulo.
 DT    9412
 AU    Figueiredo GM; Lagonegro E; Buchala CM
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):320 (abstract no. PC0212). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94370209
 AB    AIDS has been an important public health problem in Brazil. The country
       nowadays ranks a 4th among the whole world. The most recent figures show
       45,049 AIDS cases in Brazil from 1980 to 1993, being that 26,143 out of
       those come from the State of Sao Paulo and 15,455 (34.3%) come only from
       the City of Sao Paulo. The Surveillance System is active and collects
       information from hospital patients and from death certificates. This
       system uses the CDC AIDS case definition. The reported information on
       AIDS cases are related to the following variables: risk behavior group,
       age, sex, time of the first symptoms, presence of cancer and/or
       opportunistic infections. However, this system does not consider the
       description of the disease process. Therefore, a study on AIDS natural
       history in the City of Sao Paulo is needed in order to help the earlier
       diagnosis, to improve the clinical attitudes and also to obtain basic
       information for the prevention programs for specific groups.
       METHODS--Clinical data from a cohort of patients registered in the AIDS
       Reference and Training Centre of the Secretariat of Health of the State
       of Sao Paulo from 1982 to 1992 will be reviewed. Information on sex,
       age, risk behavior and clinical evolution including the presence of
       cancer and opportunistic disease will be collected. The data will be
       analysed using the COX REGRESSION and KAPLAN MEYER methods so that the
       AIDS natural history can be described.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*EPIDEMIOLOGY  Brazil/EPIDEMIOLOGY
       Human  MEETING ABSTRACT

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