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. 1991 Mar 16;302(6777):624-5.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.302.6777.624.

Is risk of Kaposi's sarcoma in AIDS patients in Britain increased if sexual partners came from United States or Africa?

V Beral  1 , D Bull, H Jaffe, B Evans, N Gill, H Tillett, A J Swerdlow
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Is risk of Kaposi's sarcoma in AIDS patients in Britain increased if sexual partners came from United States or Africa?

V Beral et al. BMJ. .

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  • BMJ 1991 Mar 30;302(6779):752

Abstract

Objective: To determine whether the risk of Kaposi's sarcoma in patients with AIDS is increased by sexual contact with groups from abroad with a high incidence of Kaposi's sarcoma.

Design: Analysis of risk of Kaposi's sarcoma in patients with AIDS, according to country of origin of their sexual partners.

Setting: United Kingdom.

Patients: 2830 patients with AIDS reported to the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre and the Communicable Disease (Scotland) Unit up to March 1990, of whom 566 had Kaposi's sarcoma.

Main outcome measures: Percentage of patients with AIDS who had Kaposi's sarcoma.

Results: 537 of 2291 homosexual or bisexual men (23%) with AIDS had Kaposi's sarcoma; 10% (14/135) of the men and women who acquired HIV by heterosexual contact had Kaposi's sarcoma. None of the 316 subjects who acquired HIV through non-sexual routes had Kaposi's sarcoma. Kaposi's sarcoma was more common among homosexual men whose likely source of infection included the United States (171/551, 31%) or Africa (9/34, 26%) than among those infected in the United Kingdom (119/625, 19%) (p less than 0.05).

Conclusion: The data suggest that Kaposi's sarcoma is caused by a sexually transmissible agent which was introduced into the British homosexual population mainly from the United States [corrected].

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