title: Study on clinico-epidemiological profile of HIV patients in eastern India.
abstract: In this study, 438 HIV positive patients attending the HIV clinic of Sir Sundar Lal Hospital, IMS, BHU were enrolled. Of these 354 were males (mean CD4 count 179 +/- 9.3 cells/microl) and 84 were females (mean CD4 count 323 +/- 28.26 cells/microl). The mean age of the study subjects at the time of diagnosis was 32.6 years. Heterosexual contact was the commonest mode of transmission in 352 (80.4%) patients followed by blood transfusion in 2.5%. History suggestive of a risk factor for HIV transmission could not be elicited in 62 (14.1%) patients. Among male patients, 71.5% were migrant workers. Fever (70.6%), weight loss (53.3%), chronic diarrhea (43.9%) and cough (40.3%) were the common presenting symptoms. Out of the 438 patients, 66.4% had opportunistic infections at the time of reporting to the hospital. The most common opportunistic infection was tuberculosis (38.8%) followed by oropharyngeal candidiasis (20.3%) and diarrhea (12.7%). CD4 counts of the patients were significantly inversely correlated with the number of symptoms and the number of opportunistic infections (correlation coefficient were -.289 and -.236 respectively).
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chakravarty
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mehta
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Parekh
authors.forename: S V S
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Attili
authors.forename: N R
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Agrawal
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sundar
mesh_terms: D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D000328:Adult; D019380:Anti-HIV Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D018791:CD4 Lymphocyte Count; D002177:Candidiasis / Q000453:epidemiology; D017281:Cost of Illness; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D019380:Anti-HIV Agents