Hormonal Contraception and Risk of Psychiatric and Other Noncommunicable Diseases in HIV-Infected Women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hormonal contraception use is common among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected women. Risk of psychiatric and other noninfectious complications of hormonal contraception use has not been described in this population.

Methods

We performed a retrospective cohort study of HIV-infected women receiving care in Tennessee from 1998 to 2008 to examine the risks of incident psychiatric and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including cardiovascular, hepatic, renal, and malignant diseases, and hormonal contraception use, including depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) and combined estrogen- and progestin-containing hormonal contraceptives. We used marginal structural models with inverse probability weights to account for time-varying confounders associated wi

SUBMITTER: Castilho JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4490777 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature