Statistical modeling of HIV, tuberculosis, and hepatitis B transmission in Ghana
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Author(s)
Twumasi, Clement
Asiedu, Louis
Nortey, Ezekiel NN
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Most mortality studies usually attribute death to single disease, while various other diseases could also act in the same individual or a population at large. Few works have been done by considering HIV, Tuberculosis (TB), and Hepatitis B (HB) as jointly acting in a population in spite of their high rate of infections in Ghana. This study applied competing risk methods on these three diseases by assuming they were the major risks in the study population. Among all opportunistic infections that could also act within HIV-infected individuals, TB has been asserted to be the most predominant. Other studies have also shown cases of HIV and Hepatitis B coinfections. The validity of these comorbidity assertions was statistically determined by exploring the conditional dependencies existing among HIV, TB, and HB through Bayesian networks or directed graphical model. Through Classification tree, sex and age group of individuals were found as significant demographic predictors that influence the prevalence of HIV and TB. Females were more likely to contract HIV, whereas males were prone to contracting TB.
Date Issued
2019-12-24
Date Acceptance
2019-12-04
Citation
Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2019, 2019
ISSN
1180-2332
Publisher
Hindawi Limited
Journal / Book Title
Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology
Volume
2019
Copyright Statement
© 2019 Clement Twumasi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Infectious Diseases
Microbiology
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
ARTN 2697618