title: [The significance of AIDS for mortality in Berlin (West)].
abstract: Following a long-term decline, death rates due to infectious diseases in West-Berlin men have dramatically increased since 1983. The Berlin mortality statistics introduced AIDS as a specific cause of death only in 1989. However, opportunistic infections, a negligible quantity until 1983, and pointing to AIDS as the underlying cause, show a steep increase in the mid and late eighties. In terms of Potential Years of Life Lost, AIDS-related mortality amounts to 8 percent of total mortality in West-Berlin men in 1989/1990.
authors: Robert Koch-Institut Berlin.
authors: W K
authors: WK
authors: Baier
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Haberland
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Schott
authors: K E
authors: KE
authors: Bergmann
mesh_terms: D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000401:mortality; D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000401:mortality*; D001604:Berlin / Q000453:epidemiology; D002423:Cause of Death; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*
vernacular_title: Die Bedeutung von AIDS für die Sterblichkeit in Berlin (West).