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Developing a method to derive alcohol-attributable fractions for HIV/AIDS mortality based on alcohol's impact on adherence to antiretroviral medication

BACKGROUND: Alcohol consumption is causally linked to nonadherence to antiretroviral treatment that in turn causes an increase in HIV/AIDS mortality. This article presents a method to calculate the percentage of HIV/AIDS deaths attributable to alcohol consumption and the associated uncertainty. METH...

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Autores principales: Gmel, Gerrit, Shield, Kevin D, Rehm, Jürgen
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3048542/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21320310
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-7954-9-5