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Trial reportAIDS (London, England)2008

Suppression of HIV-1 replication by antiretroviral therapy improves renal function in persons with low CD4 cell counts and chronic kidney disease.

Robert C Kalayjian, Nora Franceschini, Samir K Gupta, Lynda A Szczech, Ezekiel Mupere, Ronald J Bosch, Marlene Smurzynski, Jeffrey M Albert

Abstract readMulticenter StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in AIDS (London, England), 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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48citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

48 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 109 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 7 institutions in 2 countries.

Robert C KalayjianDepartment of Medicine, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. rkalayjian@metrohealth.org
Nora Franceschini
Samir K Gupta
Lynda A Szczech
Ezekiel Mupere
Ronald J Bosch
Marlene Smurzynski
Jeffrey M Albert
Cancer Research And Biostatistics · USDuke University · USIndiana University · USMakerere University · UGMetroHealth · USUniversity Hospitals Case Medical Center · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

WOMEN'S HEALTH AGENDAU01AI038858 · NIAID · SOCIAL AND SCIENTIFIC SYSTEMS, INC. · PI BENSON, CONSTANCE ANN · 1996 to 2008
$157.5M
STATISTICAL AND DATA MANAGEMENT CENTERU01AI038855 · NIAID · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) · PI HUGHES, MICHAEL DAVID · 1996 to 2006
$78.1M
WOMEN'S HEALTH AGENDAU01AI025879 · NIAID · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI LEDERMAN, MICHAEL MARCEL · 1987 to 2006
$14.0M
HIV-Related Proteinuria and Endothelial DysfunctionK23HL073682 · NHLBI · INDIANA UNIV-PURDUE UNIV AT INDIANAPOLIS · PI GUPTA, SAMIR KUMAR · 2003 to 2007
$666k
NHLBI NIH HHS K23 HL073682NHLBI NIH HHS K23HL073682NIAID NIH HHS AI25879NIAID NIH HHS AI38855NIAID NIH HHS AI38858NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI025879NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI038855NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI038858
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo examine the association between changes in glomerular filtration rates (GFR) and antiretroviral therapy (ART)-mediated suppression of plasma HIV-1 viremia.

design: Observational, prospective, multicenter cohort study.

interventionART regimens or treatment strategies in HIV-1-infected subjects were implemented through randomized clinical trials; 1776 ambulatory subjects from these trials also enrolled in this cohort study.

methodThe association between suppression of viremia and GFR changes from baseline was examined using the abbreviated Modification of Diet and Renal Disease equation in mixed effects linear models.

resultsGFR improvement was associated with ART-mediated suppression of plasma viremia in subjects with both chronic kidney disease stage > or = 2 and low baseline CD4 cell counts (< 200 cells/microl). In this subset, viral suppression (by > 1.0 log10 copies/ml or to < 400 copies/ml) was associated with an average increase in GFR of 9.2 ml/min per 1.73 m(2) from baseline (95% confidence interval, 1.6-16.8; P = 0.02) over a median follow-up of 160 weeks. The magnitude of this association increased in subjects who had greater baseline impairment of renal function, and it did not depend on race or sex.

conclusionsViral suppression was associated with GFR improvements in those with both low CD4 cell counts and impaired baseline renal function, supporting an independent contribution of HIV-1 replication to chronic renal dysfunction in advanced HIV disease. GFR improvement not associated with viral suppression also was observed in subjects with higher CD4 cell counts.

Indexed as

Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly ActiveAdultCD4 Lymphocyte CountChronic DiseaseCohort StudiesFemaleGlomerular Filtration RateHIV-1HIV InfectionsHumansKidney DiseasesMaleMiddle AgedProspective StudiesViremiaVirus Replication

Identifiers

PMID18301060
PMCPMC3529361
OpenAlexW2047119934

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