Discrimination of the Veterans Aging Cohort Study Index 2.0 for predicting cause-specific mortality among persons with HIV in Europe and North America
Ambia J, Ingle S, McGinnis K, Pantazis N, Silverberg M, Wittkop L, Kusejko K, Crane H, van Sighem A, Sarcletti M, Cozzi-Lepri A, Domingo P, Jarrin I, Wyen C, Hessamfar M, Zhang L, Cavassini M, Berenguer J, Sterling T, Reiss P, Abgrall S, Gill M, Justice A, Sterne J, Trickey A. Discrimination of the Veterans Aging Cohort Study Index 2.0 for predicting cause-specific mortality among persons with HIV in Europe and North America. Open Forum Infectious Diseases 2024, ofae333. DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofae333.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchVeterans Aging Cohort StudyVeterans Aging Cohort Study IndexCause-specific mortalityNon-AIDS-defining cancersNon-AIDS-definingPredicting cause-specific mortalityFlexible parametric survival modelsAntiretroviral therapyC-statisticNon-AIDS infectionsAging Cohort StudyAbsolute mortality riskHarrell's C-statisticAntiretroviral therapy initiationParametric survival modelsTargeted careCause of deathMortality riskVisit dateMultiple imputationCohort studyPWHAssess discriminationCox modelRespiratory-relatedCombining Charlson comorbidity and VACS indices improves prognostic accuracy for all-cause mortality for patients with and without HIV in the Veterans Health Administration
McGinnis K, Justice A, Marconi V, Rodriguez-Barradas M, Hauser R, Oursler K, Brown S, Bryant K, Tate J, Study F. Combining Charlson comorbidity and VACS indices improves prognostic accuracy for all-cause mortality for patients with and without HIV in the Veterans Health Administration. Frontiers In Medicine 2024, 10: 1342466. PMID: 38356736, PMCID: PMC10864663, DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2023.1342466.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCharlson Comorbidity IndexVACS IndexHIV RNAVeterans Health AdministrationComorbid diseasesNon-AIDS conditionsCongestive heart failureAssociated with CD4Risk of mortalityMedian ageHepatitis C.Older age groupsCharlson comorbidityCD4Prognostic accuracyHeart failurePWoHComorbidity indexVA careKidney diseasePWHHIVMatched comparatorsBaseline predictorsClinical biomarkers