Katia Giguère, Carl Chartrand-Lefebvre, Jean-Guy Baril, Brian Conway, Mohamed El-Far, Julian Falutz, Marianne Harris, Mohammad-Ali Jenabian, Jonathon Leipsic, Mona Loutfy, Samer Mansour, Paul MacPherson, Shari Margolese, Jacqueline M McMillan, Ken Monteith, Melanie C M Murray, Neora Pick, Réjean Thomas, Benoît Trottier, Sylvie Trottier, Christos Tsoukas, Sharon Walmsley, Alex Wong, Cécile Tremblay, Madeleine Durand
OBJECTIVES: Our objective was to report the baseline characteristics of participants in the Canadian HIV and Aging Cohort Study (CHACS) and present amendments to the initial protocol. METHODS: CHACS is a multi-centred prospective cohort study that was initially set from 2011 to 2016 and will now continue recruitment until 2024. Four additional years of follow-up have been added, and additional outcomes and covariates will be prospectively collected. Frailty will be assessed using a modified version of the Fried's frailty phenotype...
October 1, 2023: HIV Medicine