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This Week in HIV Research: Untangling Knots of Comorbidities
Nov. 19, 2020: Metformin's effect on weight and gut microbiota; integrase and cardiometabolics in women with HIV; ongoing link between HIV, smoking, and cancer; how early HIV treatment initiation impacts future cervical cancer outcomes.
This Week in HIV Research: Revisiting Our Needs
Oct. 8, 2020: HPV-related cancer risk among women living with HIV; the interplay between HIV, HBV, and liver disease; Framingham vs. other tools to gauge statin value; integrase inhibitors, weight gain, and menopause.
This Week in HIV Research: The Long Road to Racial Health Justice
Sept. 24, 2020: HIV adherence cohorts usually fail to reflect the diversity of the epidemic; HIV thrives in deprived neighborhoods; rethinking barriers to rapid HIV treatment initiation; long-term adverse events on INSTIs vs. efavirenz.
This Week in HIV Research: When Treating Trans Patients, Check Your Priors
Aug. 27, 2020: Traditional CVD risk calculation tools falter for transgender women; switching to B/F/TAF despite NRTI resistance; how tenofovir has altered the HBV landscape; syndemic effects on viral load and blood pressure.
This Week in HIV Research: Life in the Integrase Era
Aug. 6, 2020: Recent trends in drug interaction rates; integrase inhibitors and cardiac event risk; a deep dive into HIV drug resistance in Florida; frailty symptoms and neurocognitive disorders amidst high CD4 counts.
Body Mass Index Among People With HIV Is Rising Much Faster Than in the General Population
People living with HIV in the U.S. are experiencing increases in body mass index at a rate three times greater than that of the general U.S. population, according to new research presented at AIDS 2020.
This Week in HIV Research: So Many Relative Risks
July 1, 2020: Quantifying bone fracture risks; real-world lipid effects of switching to TAF; pulmonary function impairment in MSM; immunomodulatory drugs and viral load blips.
Study Finds Higher Risk of Recurring Blood Clots Among Some People Living With HIV
However, the findings need to be studied in larger, more diverse populations.
This Week in HIV Research: How Dangerous Is Low-Level Viremia?
May 14, 2020: Recurring low-level viremia and morbidity/mortality risk; factors affecting severe bacterial infection in people with HIV; infective endocarditis cases on the rise; high rates of opioid use among U.S. veterans with HIV.
This Week in HIV Research: The Menace of Concomitance
April 16, 2020: Anticoagulants and antiretroviral boosters; durvalumab doesn't impair antiretroviral therapy; cigarette use and oral HPV incidence; using common labs to predict Kaposi sarcoma risk.