Document 0747
 DOCN  M95A0747
 TI    [AIDS mortality in Mexico from 1983 to 1992. The trends and years of
       potential life lost]
 DT    9510
 AU    Izazola-Licea JA; Valdez-Garcia M; Sanchez-Perez HJ; del Rio-Chiriboga C
 SO    Salud Publica Mex. 1995 Mar-Apr;37(2):140-8. Unique Identifier :
       AIDSLINE MED/95343377
 AB    OBJECTIVE: To describe trends in AIDS mortality in Mexico from 1983 to
       1992, as well as years of potential life lost (YPLL) and years of
       potential productive life lost (YPPLL) due to AIDS. MATERIAL AND
       METHODS: A retrospective review of databases available in Mexico that
       code mortality from AIDS was performed. Since AIDS was not coded
       specifically as a cause of death until 1988, for the period 1983-1987
       the database of AIDS cases from the national AIDS registry provided by
       the Instituto Nacional de Diagnostico y Referencia Epidemiologicos of
       the Ministry of Health was used. For the 1988-1992 period, a review of
       the mortality registry was provided by the Direccion General de
       Estadistica, Informatica y Evaluacion of the Ministry of Health. To
       calculate YPLL and YPPLL we used the upper limit of expected life in
       Mexico for 1990 (70.79 years for men and 75.71 for women). RESULTS:
       Through 1992, there have been 8,204 deaths attributable to AIDS in
       Mexico (86% were men) with a rate of 2.9 deaths/100,000. In 1992 AIDS
       was the 19th leading cause of death in the country. The most affected
       age groups are the 25-34 and 35-44 years-old (especially amongst men) in
       which AIDS has now displaced pulmonary tuberculosis, suicide and
       self-inflicted injuries, diabetes mellitus, cerebro-vascular disease and
       alcohol dependency syndrome as leading causes of death in men. Our data
       suggests that AIDS has caused, from 1983 through 1992, 247,045 YPLL in
       men and 48,703 in women as well as 206,211 YPPLL in men and 29,793 in
       women. CONCLUSIONS: AIDS is at present one of the leading causes of
       death in Mexico. However, due to under-reporting, these estimates should
       be considered conservative and as lower-bound estimates. This data
       suggests that professionals are over-represented among AIDS cases, in
       comparison with the 1990 Population Census. This does not happen to be
       the case among women who are housewives.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*MORTALITY  Adolescence  Adult  Age
       Distribution  Cause of Death  English Abstract  Female  Human  *HIV-1
       Incidence  Life Expectancy/*TRENDS  Male  Mexico/EPIDEMIOLOGY  Middle
       Age  Mortality/TRENDS  Registries/STATISTICS & NUMER DATA  Retrospective
       Studies  Sex Distribution  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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