Pharmacologic Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders and Time With Unsuppressed HIV Viral Load in a Clinical HIV Cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate associations of mood, anxiety, stress-/trauma-related, and psychotic disorders, both treated and untreated, with duration of unsuppressed HIV viral load (VL) among persons living with HIV (PLWH).

Setting

The DC Cohort, an observational clinical cohort of PLWH followed from 2011 to 2018 at 14 sites in Washington, DC.

Methods

Among PLWH ≥18 years old who received primary care at their HIV clinic, we determined in a time-updated manner whether participants had diagnoses and pharmacologic prescriptions for mood, anxiety, stress-/trauma-related, and/or psychotic disorders. Associations between psychiatric disorders/treatments and the proportion of subsequent days with VL ≥200 copies/mL were assessed using multivariable Poisson regression with generali

SUBMITTER: Levy ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6791752 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature