{"id":42563,"date":"2022-04-01T07:42:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T07:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=42563"},"modified":"2022-09-12T07:38:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T07:38:21","slug":"croi-2022-life-expectancy-reduced-by-eight-years-following-hospitalisation-for-a-mental-health-condition-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/42563","title":{"rendered":"CROI 2022: Life expectancy reduced by eight years following hospitalisation for a mental health condition in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kirk Taylor, HIV i-Base<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42108 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/CROI-2022-logo-small-212x300.png\" alt=\"CROI 2022\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/CROI-2022-logo-small-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/CROI-2022-logo-small.png 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/span><\/strong><strong>CROI 2022 included a study from South Africa that predicted an eight year reduction in life expectancy for HIV positive people that had been hospitalised for a mental health condition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Links between mental health and mortality were studied using records from a private HIV management programme in South Africa. Data from 122,853 HIV positive people that had median age of 39 (IQR: 33 to 46) at first hospital admission were analysed.<\/p>\n<p>Hospitalisation for mental health disorders accounted for 8,505 cases and classified as depression (84%), substance abuse (12%), bipolar (10%), organic (6%) or psychotic disorders (3%).<\/p>\n<p>Life years lost (LYL) were a prediction of reduction in life expectancy due to hospitalisation for a mental health condition. LYL was mostly accounted for by natural deaths. These data show that LYL was greater for men (9.2 years, 95% CI: 7.9 to 10.4) than women (6.6 years, 95% CI: 5.0 to 8.3). Furthermore, LYL were three times greater for organic vs non-organic causes at 16.6 years (95% CI 15.3 to 17.7).<\/p>\n<h3>comment<\/h3>\n<p><strong>This study reports significant increase in mortality for HIV positive people that have been hospitalised for a mental health condition. However<\/strong><strong>, this is a single-centre study with small sample size. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>More data are required to determine whether this is a regional effect or more widely observed trend<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>References<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Ruffieux et al. Excess life-years lost associated with hospitalization for mental illness. CROI 2022. 12-16 February 2022, virtual. Poster 766.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.croiconference.org\/abstract\/excess-life-years-lost-associated-with-hospitalization-for-mental-illness\/\">https:\/\/www.croiconference.org\/abstract\/excess-life-years-lost-associated-with-hospitalization-for-mental-illness\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk Taylor, HIV i-Base CROI 2022 included a study from South Africa that predicted an eight year reduction in life expectancy for HIV positive people that had been hospitalised for a mental health condition. Links between mental health and mortality &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,31],"tags":[318],"class_list":["post-42563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference-reports","category-opportunistic-infections-coinfections-and-complications","tag-croi-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44052,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42563\/revisions\/44052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}