The fact is, people with HIV infection are now living longer and dying less frequently from AIDS-related complications, but are increasingly experiencing morbidity and mortality that is secondary to organ failure.
These results indicate worse outcomes for those experiencing morbidity.
Investigation of long-term repercussions on women's sexual life aspects after maternal morbidity has been scarcely performed, however indicating worse outcomes for those experiencing morbidity.
Patients with bone metastases may also experience morbidity secondary to immobility, pathologic fractures, bone marrow involvement and subsequent suppression, spinal cord compression, or other neurologic deficits.
Problem drinking is one of the three leading contributors to preventable death [ 1] and increases significantly the likelihood of experiencing morbidity, trauma, casualties and violence [ 2– 4].
Patients with bone metastases are at an increased risk of experiencing morbidity due to bone complications, and bone-targeting agents (BTA) are indicated for the prevention of these complications.
While those at greatest risk are infants less than one year of age, older children still experience morbidity and are a known source of infection for younger siblings [ 17, 18].
However, few patients experienced increased morbidity, and none was felt to have experienced increased mortality or altered long-term outcome.
Revised diagnosis (RDx) was associated with major clinical impact in 57.1% of reports, but few patients experienced increased morbidity, and none increased mortality.
So far only 1.5 and 0.5%, respectively, have experienced late morbidity of RTOG grade ⩾3.
