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. 2020 Sep 2;5(3):191-195.
doi: 10.1089/trgh.2019.0030. eCollection 2020.

Prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Opportunistic Infections Among Transgender Patients in the Clinical Setting: An All-Payer Electronic Health Record Database Study

Joshua D Niforatos  1 , Jonathon W Wanta  2 , Emily Durbak  3 , Jacqueline Cavendish  4 , Justin A Yax  4   5
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Prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Opportunistic Infections Among Transgender Patients in the Clinical Setting: An All-Payer Electronic Health Record Database Study

Joshua D Niforatos et al. Transgend Health. .

Abstract

We performed a cross-sectional analysis of the prevalence of HIV and opportunistic infections among transgender patients in clinical care. Of 10,160 transgender patients identified, 3.9% had a diagnosis of HIV, compared to 0.32% in the non-transgender cohort (p<0.0001). Transgender patients experience the burden of all opportunistic infection compared to non-transgender patients in this analysis, although prevalence of pneumocystis pneumonia was not significant. This cohort-based, all-payer electronic health record study of HIV patients connected to care revealed that transgender patients have a higher prevalence of HIV infection and opportunistic infections compared to the non-transgender cohort.

Keywords: Explorys; HIV; opportunistic infection; transgender.

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