Table 1 Characteristics of individuals at time of hospitalisation, number of emergency admissions and duration of hospital stay according to most common causes
ICD-10 classified cause of hospitalisation: 7 most common causes and total | ||||||||
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Characteristics | Circulatory diseases | Digestive diseases | Respiratory diseases | Infectious and parasitic diseases | Injury/poisoning /other external causes | Genitourinary diseases | Neoplasms | Total admissions |
N | 46 | 36 | 32 | 30 | 29 | 27 | 25 | 274 |
Demographic groupb | ||||||||
MSM | 34 (74%) | 27 (75%) | 21 (66%) | 19 (63%) | 16 (55%) | 13 (48%) | 17 (68%) | 175 (64%) |
Black African heterosexual men | 0 (0%) | 2 (5.6%) | 0 (0%) | 4 (13%) | 0 (0%) | 4 (15%) | 1 (4.0%) | 14 (5.1%) |
Other heterosexual men | 7 (15%) | 5 (14%) | 5 (16%) | 5 (17%) | 5 (17%) | 4 (15%) | 3 (12%) | 38 (14%) |
Black African women | 0 (0%) | 1 (2.8%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (3.3%) | 2 (6.9%) | 2 (7.4%) | 2 (8.0%) | 14 (5.1%) |
Other women | 5 (11%) | 1 (2.8%) | 6 (19%) | 1 (3.3%) | 6 (21%) | 4 (15%) | 2 (8.0%) | 33 (12%) |
Median age (IQR)a | 56 (46–64) | 52 (46–58) | 53 (47–67) | 54 (45–60) | 48 (43–59) | 53 (46–60) | 54 (48–60) | 52 (46–60) |
Median CD4 count in cells//μl (IQR)a | 511 (343–804) | 340 (272–620) | 465 (347–753) | 378 (170–660) | 525 (449–696) | 528 (356–893) | 410 (267–608) | 510 (315–739) |
Median CD4 count nadir cells/μl (IQR)a | 60 (39–250) | 102 (44–133) | 65 (12–185) | 59 (18–138) | 202 (50–280) | 117 (26–147) | 74 (14–153) | 113 (40–239) |
Virally non-suppressed (> 50 copies/ml)a | 3 (7%) | 5 (14%) | 9 (28%) | 14 (47%) | 8 (28%) | 3 (11%) | 8 (32%) | 57 (21%) |
Median years since HIV diagnosis (IQR)a | 20 (11–25) | 17 (13–24) | 17 (11–26) | 15 (13–20) | 12 (8–22) | 17 (13–23) | 21 (13–26) | 18 (11–23) |
Currently not on ARTa | 2 (4.4%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (3.1%) | 3 (10%) | 1 (3.5%) | 1 (3.7%) | 4 (16%) | 13 (4.7%) |
Median years since first started ART (IQR)a | 15 (7–20) | 15 (11–19) | 14 (9–19) | 13 (9–17) | 8 (6–14) | 15 (12–20) | 16 (11–20) | 14 (9–19) |
Prior AIDS diagnosisa | 31 (67%) | 18 (50%) | 18 (56%) | 22 (73%) | 8 (28%) | 12 (44%) | 14 (56%) | 141 (51%) |
Most recent smoking statusc | ||||||||
Current smoker | 19 (41%) | 10 (29%) | 14 (44%) | 13 (43%) | 10 (36%) | 6 (22%) | 6 (24%) | 110 (40%) |
Ex-smoker | 8 (17%) | 12 (35%) | 9 (28%) | 8 (27%) | 8 (29%) | 6 (22%) | 12 (48%) | 69 (26%) |
Never smoked | 19 (41%) | 12 (35%) missing = 2 | 9 (28%) | 9 (30%) | 10 (36%) missing = 1 | 15 (56%) | 7 (28%) | 92 (34%) missing = 3 |
Emergency hospitalisations | 37 (80%) | 30 (83%) | 31 (97%) | 26 (87%) | 24 (83%) | 20 (74%) | 10 (40%) | 206 (75%) |
Median duration of admission in days (IQR) | 6 (3–8) | 6 (3.5–10.5) | 6 (3–9) | 7 (4–12) | 4 (2–7) | 4 (2–8) | 8 (3–18) | 5 (2–9) |