2024
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-relatedIncidence of non-AIDS defining comorbidities among young adults with perinatally acquired HIV in North America
Haw N, Lesko C, Ng D, Lam J, Lang R, Kitahata M, Crane H, Eron J, Gill M, Horberg M, Karris M, Loutfy M, McGinnis K, Moore R, Althoff K, Agwu A. Incidence of non-AIDS defining comorbidities among young adults with perinatally acquired HIV in North America. AIDS 2024, 38: 1366-1374. PMID: 38507583, PMCID: PMC11211058, DOI: 10.1097/qad.0000000000003892.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPerinatally-acquired HIVChronic kidney diseaseMedication useIncidence rateNorth American AIDS Cohort CollaborationElectronic health recordsRoutine HIV careCumulative incidenceResearch and DesignIncidence of diabetes mellitus type 2Young adultsQuasi-Poisson regressionNon-Black femalesDescription of outcomesGlycosylated haemoglobin >Clinical diagnosisHIV careHealth recordsNA-ACCORDBlack adultsIncidence of hypercholesterolemiaDiabetes mellitus type 2Hypertension incidenceCKD incidenceAmerican adultsCombining 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 biomarkersLongitudinal trends in causes of death among adults with HIV on antiretroviral therapy in Europe and North America from 1996 to 2020: a collaboration of cohort studies
Trickey A, McGinnis K, Gill M, Abgrall S, Berenguer J, Wyen C, Hessamfar M, Reiss P, Kusejko K, Silverberg M, Imaz A, Teira R, d'Arminio Monforte A, Zangerle R, Guest J, Papastamopoulos V, Crane H, Sterling T, Grabar S, Ingle S, Sterne J. Longitudinal trends in causes of death among adults with HIV on antiretroviral therapy in Europe and North America from 1996 to 2020: a collaboration of cohort studies. The Lancet HIV 2024, 11: e176-e185. PMID: 38280393, DOI: 10.1016/s2352-3018(23)00272-2.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCause-specific mortalityAvailability of effective antiretroviral therapyAll-cause mortalityRates of all-cause mortalityPatterns of cause-specific mortalityCause-specific mortality ratesCohort studyAdjusted mortality rate ratiosAntiretroviral Therapy Cohort CollaborationMortality rate ratiosInternational Classification of DiseasesMortality rateLongitudinal trendsAccident-related mortalityRates of cause-specific mortalityProportion of deathsClassification of DiseasesAIDS-related mortalityAIDS-related deathsAntiretroviral therapyInvestigate longitudinal trendsIncreased life expectancyInjection drug useHIV ageObservational cohort study
2007
Co-morbid medical and psychiatric illness and substance abuse in HCV-infected and uninfected veterans
Butt A, Khan U, McGinnis K, Skanderson M, Kent Kwoh C. Co-morbid medical and psychiatric illness and substance abuse in HCV-infected and uninfected veterans. Journal Of Viral Hepatitis 2007, 0: 070729180316002-???. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2893.2007.00885.x.Peer-Reviewed Original Research