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Multicenter Study
. 2000 Oct 20;14(15):2355-60.
doi: 10.1097/00002030-200010200-00017.

Pregnancy and progression to AIDS: results of the French prospective cohorts. SEROGEST and SEROCO Study Groups

M Saada  1 , J Le Chenadec, A Berrebi, A Bongain, J F Delfraissy, M J Mayaux, L Meyer
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Multicenter Study

Pregnancy and progression to AIDS: results of the French prospective cohorts. SEROGEST and SEROCO Study Groups

M Saada et al. AIDS. .

Abstract

Objective: To investigate whether pregnancy accelerates HIV-1 disease progression.

Method: In two large French SEROCO and SEROGEST prospective cohorts of HIV infected patients, the progression to AIDS in 365 women with a known date of HIV-1 seroconversion was examined by comparing those who delivered after HIV infection (n = 241) with those who did not become pregnant while HIV-infected (n = 124).

Results: The crude relative risk of developing AIDS associated with pregnancy was 0.7 [95% confidence interval (CI), 0.4-1.2]. Adjustment for age at seroconversion, the CD4+ cell percentage at entry, and the method used to date seroconversion did not modify the results (adjusted relative risk, 0.7; 95% CI 0.4-1.2).

Conclusions: No deleterious effect of pregnancy on progression from seroconversion to AIDS was found. This result has important implications for the counselling of HIV-infected women of child-bearing age.

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