{"id":1155,"date":"2022-05-19T21:21:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T01:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/dittmerlab\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2022-05-19T21:24:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T01:24:16","slug":"kaposi-sarcoma-remains-common-in-persons-living-with-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/dittmerlab\/kaposi-sarcoma-remains-common-in-persons-living-with-hiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaposi Sarcoma remains common in persons living with HIV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Making the point in response to a recent article in AIDS showing that &#8220;Black patients had higher <span class=\"ej-keyword\" data-value=\"mortality\">mortality<\/span> than white or Hispanic patients (hazard ratio 2.07, 95% confidence interval 1.12\u20133.82), even after adjusting for covariates. This <span class=\"ej-keyword\" data-value=\"mortality\">mortality<\/span> difference correlates with higher rates of advanced <span class=\"ej-keyword\" data-value=\"Kaposi\">Kaposi<\/span>&#8216;s sarcoma disease and KS-IRIS in black patients compared with other groups and is not explained by differences in CD4<sup>+<\/sup> cell count, HIV viral load, engagement in care, or ART adherence at the time of cancer diagnosis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idse.net\/HIV-AIDS--STIs\/Article\/03-22\/Kaposi-Sarcoma-Still-a-Major-Contributor-to-Morbidity-Mortality-in-Certain-HIV-Populations\/66573\">https:\/\/www.idse.net\/HIV-AIDS&#8211;STIs\/Article\/03-22\/Kaposi-Sarcoma-Still-a-Major-Contributor-to-Morbidity-Mortality-in-Certain-HIV-Populations\/66573<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making the point in response to a recent article in AIDS showing that &#8220;Black patients had higher mortality than white or Hispanic patients (hazard ratio 2.07, 95% confidence interval 1.12\u20133.82), even after adjusting for covariates. This mortality difference correlates with higher rates of advanced Kaposi&#8216;s sarcoma disease and KS-IRIS in black patients compared with other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/dittmerlab\/kaposi-sarcoma-remains-common-in-persons-living-with-hiv\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kaposi Sarcoma remains common in persons living with HIV\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":false,"featured_image_medium":false,"featured_image_medium_large":false,"featured_image_large":false,"featured_image_thumbnail":false,"featured_image_alt":false,"category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/dittmerlab\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/dittmerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/dittmerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/dittmerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/dittmerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/dittmerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/dittmerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/dittmerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/dittmerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/microimm\/dittmerlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}