OBJECTIVE Recent UNAIDS '90-90-90' targets propose that to end the HIV epidemic by 2030, 90% of persons living with HIV (PLWH) worldwide should know their diagnosis, 90% of diagnosed PLWH should be on antiretroviral therapy (ART) and 90% of PLWH on ART should be virally suppressed by 2020. We sought to quantify the epidemiological impact of achieving these targets in India. METHODS We constru...

Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Represents an Enormous Healthcare Burden Acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) is the most common cause of hospital admission in persons aged >65 years, accounting for 1 000 000 admissions and >6 million hospital days. The total cost of HF care in the United States is currently estimated at $21 billion and is projected to increase to $53 billion in 2030 with...

Endocarditis is a disease characterized by inflammation or infection of the inner surface of the heart (the endocardium). This article will focus on endocarditis that is the result of infection (infective endocarditis). Endocarditis commonly affects heart valves, but may also involve nonvalvular areas or mechanical devices that are implanted in the heart, such as artificial heart valves, pacema...

Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Represents an Enormous Healthcare Burden Acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) is the most common cause of hospital admission in persons aged >65 years, accounting for 1 000 000 admissions and >6 million hospital days. The total cost of HF care in the United States is currently estimated at $21 billion and is projected to increase to $53 billion in 2030 with...

Introduction Commom variable immunodeficiency (CVI) is the second more comom cause of Immunodeficiency. Its prevalence is about 10 000 a 50 000 persons. Its incidente is about the first and second life’s decade. Both genders are commited and it can be associated a several phenotypes such a recurrent inlfections,autoimmunity,enteropathy,neoplasms,polyclonal lymphocytic infiltration. The main rec...

Endocarditis is a disease characterized by inflammation or infection of the inner surface of the heart (the endocardium). This article will focus on endocarditis that is the result of infection (infective endocarditis). Endocarditis commonly affects heart valves, but may also involve nonvalvular areas or mechanical devices that are implanted in the heart, such as artificial heart valves, pacema...

Studies (1–8) of the effect of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection on cancer incidence rates have all shown that rates of Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) are greatly increased among persons infected with HIV but have had conflicting results concerning other cancers. Analysis of death rates offers another way to investigate the spectrum of cancers associated with ...

This article compares data from a variety of sources on the hospital utilization experience of persons aged 65 and over during the period 1963-71. These data show that, in the first 3 years fo7lowing the inception of Medicare, use of hospital services by the agedmeasured by days of care per 1~000 personsincreased at an average annual rate of 6-13 percent. Since 1969, however, hospital utilizati...