Comments on: ReutersHealth covers Frisch gay mortality study

By: Chairm

Chairm — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:17:25 +0000

Thanks.

Do you know of HIV/AIDS surveillance studies that link infection rates with registered parternship rates?

By: Warren

Warren — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:20:22 +0000

@Chairm: It only looks at the marriage groups. The study may not generalize to unmarried gays which would be most of them in Denmark. Yes, age was adjusted for. I do not know how AIDS was accounted for except that the years of marriage were broken down pre-HAART and post-HAART.

By: Chairm

Chairm — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:16:23 +0000

I should hasten to ask: did the researchers also use prevalence and incidence rates of HIV/AIDs infection?

By: Chairm

Chairm — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:15:39 +0000

Warren, does the study look at the available evidence in terms of the marital population — comparing registered parnterships of man-woman, man-man, and woman-woman?

I ask because the abstract suggested that they compared the general population, with the same-sex married population — rather than comparing subgroups within the marital population.

Did they adjust for age, too, when estimating the mortality rate per sub-population?

I may be recalling incorrectly, but I thought that the median age of same-sexers was significanty higher than for both-sexers.