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However, Harry Rosenberg, the mortality-statistics chief at the National Center for Health Statistics, says he's unaware of evidence that HIV-negative gays have a lower life expectancy than other males.
Bacteremia is more common in hospitalized HIV-positive patients than in HIV-negative patients [ 9 ] . The incidence of nonmycobacterial bacteremias in hospitalized patients with HIV ranges from 2% to 9% [ 10 11 12 ] . Most blood stream infections in patients with HIV are community acquired [ 13 14 ] . In developed countries, the incidence rate of HIV-associated bacteremia has declined after the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) [ 14 15 ] . In the present study, the incidence of blood stream infection among hospitalized patients with HIV was 7%, and most of these infections were community acquired.
Rosenberg also points to one reason to think the HIV-negative gay male may actually live longer on average than the straight male: Gays may have higher incomes and more education on average than straights--two factors powerfully correlated with longer life spans.
For the number 43 to be the true average death age for the entire population of gay males, HIV-negative gay men would, on average, have to keel into their graves at 46.
Looked at another way, if even half the gay male population stays HIV-negative and lives to an average age of 75, an average overall life span of 43 implies that gay males with AIDS die at an implausibly early average age (11, actually).
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