Gender and alcohol use: influences on HIV care continuum in a national cohort of patients with HIV.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate whether gender is associated with three recommended stages of the HIV care continuum and whether gender modifies known associations between level of alcohol use and HIV care among US veterans.

Design

Retrospective cohort.

Methods

Veterans Aging Cohort Study data were used to identify Veterans Health Administration (VA) patients with HIV and AUDIT-C alcohol screening from 1 February 2008 to 30 September 2014. Modified Poisson regression models estimated the relative risk and predicted prevalences of engagement in HIV care (documented CD4 cells/μl or viral load copies/ml lab values), ART treatment (at least one prescription), and viral suppression (HIV RNA <500 copies/ml) in the year following AUDIT-C (1) for women compared to men, and (2) for

SUBMITTER: Matson TE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6136970 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature