Natalie E Chichetto, Suman Kundu, Matthew S Freiberg, John R Koethe, Adeel A Butt, Stephen Crystal, Kaku A So-Armah, Robert L Cook, R Scott Braithwaite, Amy C Justice, David A Fiellin, Maria Khan, Kendall J Bryant, Julie R Gaither, Shirish S Barve, Kristina Crothers, Roger J Bedimo, Alberta Warner, Hilary A Tindle
Unhealthy alcohol use, smoking, and depressive symptoms are risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). Little is known about their co-occurrence - termed a syndemic, defined as the synergistic effect of two or more conditions-on CVD risk in people with HIV (PWH). We used data from 5621 CVD-free participants (51% PWH) in the Veteran's Aging Cohort Study-8, a prospective, observational study of veterans followed from 2002 to 2014 to assess the association between this syndemic and incident CVD by HIV status...
June 8, 2021: AIDS and Behavior