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• Illicit drug use, depression and their association with highly active antiretroviral therapy in HIV-positive women

  Summary: Depression and use of illicit drugs like crack/cocaine/heroin are serious problems for HIV positive women in the WIHS cohort. In addition, prior research on other groups with HIV/AIDS sug

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• Crack cocaine, disease progression, and mortality in a multicenter cohort of HIV-1 positive women

  Summary: Use of crack cocaine by women with HIV/AIDS may make the disease progress faster in terms of low CD4 count, high viral load, illness, and death. To see if this is true in the WIHS, this s

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• Patterns and predictors of changes in adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy: longitudinal study of men and women

  Summary: Very high adherence to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is central to successful treatment of HIV infection. Prior studies have primarily examined determinants of adherence at

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• Association of Serum Lipid Levels With HIV Serostatus, Specific Antiretroviral Agents, and Treatment Regimens

  Summary: After puberty, cholesterol levels differ between women and men, with premenopausal women having lower total cholesterol (total-C) and LDL (the "bad" cholesterol). But after menopause wome

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• Longitudinal anthropometric patterns among HIV-infected and HIV- uninfected women

  Summary: Previous studies suggest that HIV infection, antiretroviral therapy, or both may affect body fat distribution, especially waist and hip size. In women, the waist is typically smaller than

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• Consistency of initial antiretroviral therapy with HIV treatment guidelines in a US cohort of HIV-infected women

  Summary: Finding the best treatment for an HIV-positive person can be challenging for clinicians. This is because there are many different medicines to choose from and many different combinations

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• Factors associated with preclinical disability and frailty among HIV- infected and HIV-uninfected women in the era of cART

  Summary: HIV- infected adults taking highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) are living longer. As part of ongoing evaluations of HIV and its treatment, we were interested in assessing whethe

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• Factors associated with hepatitis C viremia in a large cohort of HIV- infected and -uninfected women

  Summary: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is common among HIV-infected women. The infection clears in 20-50% of HCV-infected women, but in fewer women if they also have HIV infection. We investig

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• Trends in mortality and causes of death among women with HIV in the United States: a 10-year study

  Summary: We examined trends in mortality (death) for HIV-infected women in the WIHS. We found that the mortality rate decreased dramatically when active anti-HIV drugs came into wide use but that

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• Correlates of CD4+ and CD8+ lymphocyte counts in high-risk immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-seronegative women enrolled in the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS)

  Summary: Measurements of CD4 and CD8 cells are commonly used to monitor a variety of immunodeficiency disorders including HIV. Studies of HIV infection often compare values from HIV-uninfected con

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