Weight Change After Antiretroviral Therapy and Mortality
Yuh B, Tate J, Butt AA, Crothers K, Freiberg M, Leaf D, Logeais M, Rimland D, Rodriguez-Barradas MC, Ruser C, Justice AC. Weight Change After Antiretroviral Therapy and Mortality. Clinical Infectious Diseases 2015, 60: 1852-1859. PMID: 25761868, PMCID: PMC4542664, DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ192.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBaseline body mass indexVeterans Aging Cohort StudyNormal weight patientsART initiationWeight gainWeight changeHuman immunodeficiency virus-infected patientsLower mortalityDisease severityAntiretroviral therapy initiationMultivariable Cox modelVirus-infected patientsAging Cohort StudyMedian weight changeBody mass indexYears of ARTGreater disease severityVACS IndexAntiretroviral therapyTherapy initiationBaseline weightCohort studyObese patientsSurvival benefitHemoglobin levels