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Author: search.filters.author.Makuapane, Lerato PatriciaSubject: search.filters.subject.Comorbidity

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    The prevalence and predictors of HIV-hypertension comorbidity among youth living with HIV in South Africa, 2010-2016
    (2018) Makuapane, Lerato Patricia
    Over the last two decades, AIDS mortality rates has decreased substantially due to extensive HIV treatment in South Africa, which left HIV as a chronic illness. Therefore, since the disease nature of HIV predisposes patients to other clinical conditions; many HIV patients also suffers from other AIDS-related and non-AIDS diseases resulting in comorbidities. It is most prevalent among population aged 14-35 years. At the same time, NCDs are rapidly increasing among youth with hypertension being amongst the leading cause of HIV comorbidities. High prevalence of both HIV/ AIDS and hypertension in this cohort rise a concern of their simultaneous occurrence to develop HIV-hypertension comorbidity. Abbreviation abstract)