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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-6-13
pubmed:abstractText
Although oral candidiasis lesions are widely recognized as markers for AIDS, the relative prognostic significance of functions of these episodes has not been examined. We compare the associations with time to AIDS of one fixed and six time-dependent metrics of oral candidiasis lesions, including proximity of a lesion to seroconversion, any candidiasis history, and recency of a lesion. We show in Cox regression models that two metrics are clinically and statistically far more significant than the others, alone or in combination: any history of candidiasis since HIV seroconversion, and recency of a candidiasis episode. The latter metric indicates that the risk of an AIDS diagnosis is high during a candidiasis episode. The results hold for two cohorts of male seroconverters, 627 haemophiliacs and 196 men who have sex with men. Identification of highly prognostic functions of a patient's oral candidiasis history allows clinicians and researchers to focus on these aspects of the history and to omit extraneous information from data collection. Our method extends well beyond candidiasis and AIDS, and may shed light on associations of covariates with outcomes in a variety of settings.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0277-6715
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
19
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
989-1004
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10750064-Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, pubmed-meshheading:10750064-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:10750064-Candidiasis, Oral, pubmed-meshheading:10750064-Cohort Studies, pubmed-meshheading:10750064-Data Interpretation, Statistical, pubmed-meshheading:10750064-Disease Progression, pubmed-meshheading:10750064-HIV Infections, pubmed-meshheading:10750064-Hemophilia A, pubmed-meshheading:10750064-Homosexuality, Male, pubmed-meshheading:10750064-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10750064-Likelihood Functions, pubmed-meshheading:10750064-Male, pubmed-meshheading:10750064-Multicenter Studies as Topic, pubmed-meshheading:10750064-Prognosis, pubmed-meshheading:10750064-Proportional Hazards Models, pubmed-meshheading:10750064-Prospective Studies, pubmed-meshheading:10750064-Risk Factors, pubmed-meshheading:10750064-Survival Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:10750064-Time Factors
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Functions of oral candidiasis episodes that are highly prognostic for AIDS.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143-0560, USA. joan@biostat.ucsf.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.