Incongruous Age Distributions of HIV Infections （不协调的艾滋病毒感染的年龄分布）.pdf

Incongruous Age Distributions of HIV Infections and Deaths from HIV Disease: Where Is the Latent Period Between HIV Infection and AIDS? Henry H. Bauer, Ph.D. Table 1. Death Rates from HIV Disease. Deaths per 100,000 population, overall and by sex, selected years 1987-2004. ABSTRACT Ages (years) 1987 1990 1995 2000 2002 2003 2004 All persons All ages, age-adjusted 5.6 10.2 16.2 5.2 4.9 4.7 4.5 HIV/AIDS theory postulates a latent period of roughly 10 years All ages, crude 5.6 10.1 16.2 5.1 4.9 4.7 4.4 between infection by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the ≤ 1 2.3 2.7 1.5 * * * * appearance of symptoms of acquired immune deficiency 1-4 0.7 0.8 1.3 * * * * 5-14 0.1 0.2 0.5 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 syndrome (AIDS). Progressively improved treatments have 15-24 1.3 1.5 1.7 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.5 supposedly extended the latent period for asymptomatic HIV- 25-34 11.7 19.7 28.3 6.1 4.6 4.0 3.7 positive persons as well as the