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To the Editor: In their report, Chaisson and colleagues (Sept. 21 issue)¹ suggest that their findings are inconsistent with our finding that lower income at base line was associated with shorter subsequent survival in our cohort of homosexual men infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).^2,3 The following could explain the differences.

First, patients were recruited into the cohort of Chaisson et al. well after HIV infection had occurred. From the data in Table 2 of their article, it is clear that the majority of study participants already had late-stage HIV disease. For example, 75 percent of the participants had . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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