ArticleAlzheimer's research & therapy2015
HIV effects on age-associated neurocognitive dysfunction: premature cognitive aging or neurodegenerative disease?
Article in Alzheimer's research & therapy, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02663934 (Exercise Training to Improve Brain Health in Older HIV+ Individuals), which is not on this map. Cited by 97 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Exercise Training to Improve Brain Health in Older HIV+ Individuals
Who cites it
97 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 142 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Associations between plasma biomarkers and changes in cognitive function over two years in people with and without HIV.AIDS (London, England) · 2026Article
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- Interferon-induced protein IFIT3 as a molecular nexus of neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease and HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2026Article
- HIV Infection, Neurotoxicity, Inflammation, Premature Aging, and Therapeutic Challenges to PLWH: An Overview.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Determinants of Brain Atrophy in People Living with HIV: The Role of Lifestyle, Demographics, and Comorbidities.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- HIV infection in microglia leads to senescence, triggering activation of neurotoxicity pathways.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Expert Consensus Statement on an Updated Definition of Unintended Weight Loss Among Persons With Human Immunodeficiency Virus in the Modern Treatment Era.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2024Review
- Disparate trajectories of cognitive aging among American Indian and Alaskan Native people with and without HIV.Neuropsychology · 2024Article
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- 2024 Alzheimer's disease facts and figures.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Article
- Identifying and distinguishing cognitive profiles among virally suppressed people with HIV.Neuropsychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Marked improvements in survival and health outcome for people infected with HIV have occurred since the advent of combination antiretroviral therapy over a decade ago. Yet HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders continue to occur with an alarming prevalence. This may reflect the fact that infected people are now living longer with chronic infection. There is mounting evidence that HIV exacerbates age-associated cognitive decline. Many middle-aged HIV-infected people are experiencing cognitive decline similar that to that found among much older adults. An increased prevalence of vascular and metabolic comorbidities has also been observed and is greatest among older adults with HIV. Premature age-associated neurocognitive decline appears to be related to structural and functional brain changes on neuroimaging, and of particular concern is the fact that pathology indicative of neurodegenerative disease has been shown to occur in the brains of HIV-infected people. Yet notable differences also exist between the clinical presentation and brain disturbances occurring with HIV and those occurring in neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease. HIV interacts with the aging brain to affect neurological structure and function. However, whether this interaction directly affects neurodegenerative processes, accelerates normal cognitive aging, or contributes to a worsening of other comorbidities that affect the brain in older adults remains an open question. Evidence for and against each of these possibilities is reviewed.
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