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Determinants of hospital mortality of HIV infected patients from north India
  1. S K Sharma,
  2. T Kadhiravan,
  3. A Banga,
  4. I Bhatia,
  5. T Goyal,
  6. P K Saha
  1. Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
  1. Correspondence to:
 Dr S K Sharma
 Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi-110029, India; sksharmaaiims.ac.in

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A majority of the HIV infected population lives in developing nations. Most patients require hospitalisation for management of opportunistic infections (OIs) sometime during the course of their illness. Locally endemic infections and underlying malnutrition tend to influence the manifestations and course of the disease.1 However, there is paucity of data on pattern of disease and determinants of immediate outcome of such patients from Indian subcontinent.2

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