Fouchard J R, Bille H
AIDS-sekretariatet og medicinstatistisk afdeling, Sundhedsstyrelsen, København.
Ugeskr Laeger. 1996 Jun 10;158(24):3448-50.
The objective was to describe the extent to which HIV infection has become a major cause of death among young adults in Denmark. The design used was retrospective review of underlying causes of death recorded in the National Danish Register of Causes of Death on the basis of submitted death certificates. Analysis of mortality statistics revealed, that from 1980 to 1993 AIDS became the 5th leading cause of death among men 25 to 49 years of age in Denmark after cancer, accidents, suicide and heart disease. AIDS among women had little impact on the vital statistics in the period. In the municipalities of the City of Copenhagen AIDS was the major cause of death among men already from 1990 and in 1993 death from AIDS comprised 25% of all causes (n = 107, death rate = 88/100,000). The rising rates of deaths attributed to AIDS among younger men show no sign of decreasing neither in the capital nor in the country as a whole.
目的是描述在丹麦，艾滋病毒感染在多大程度上已成为年轻人死亡的主要原因。所采用的设计是基于提交的死亡证明，对丹麦国家死亡原因登记册中记录的潜在死亡原因进行回顾性审查。死亡率统计分析显示，1980年至1993年期间，在丹麦25至49岁的男性中，艾滋病成为继癌症、事故、自杀和心脏病之后的第五大主要死因。在此期间，女性中的艾滋病对生命统计数据影响不大。在哥本哈根市的各个自治市，自1990年起艾滋病就是男性死亡的主要原因，1993年因艾滋病死亡的人数占所有死因的25%（n = 107，死亡率 = 88/100,000）。在首都以及整个国家，年轻男性中因艾滋病导致的死亡率上升均没有下降的迹象。
