Observational studyAIDS care2017
Not all non-drinkers with HIV are equal: demographic and clinical comparisons among current non-drinkers with and without a history of prior alcohol use disorders.
Observational study in AIDS care, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Alcohol consumption: from biochemistry to behavior, health, and beyond.Frontiers in toxicology · 2026Review
- Alcohol use and the longitudinal HIV care continuum for people with HIV who enrolled in care between 2011 and 2019.Annals of epidemiology · 2023Article
- The temporal relationship of alcohol use and subsequent self-reported health status among people with HIV.American journal of medicine open · 2023Article
- Tobacco smoking and binge alcohol use are associated with incident venous thromboembolism in an HIV cohort.HIV medicine · 2022Article
- Sustained Sobriety: A Qualitative Study of Persons with HIV and Chronic Hepatitis C Coinfection and a History of Problematic Drinking.AIDS and behavior · 2021Article
- Differentiating Types of Self-Reported Alcohol Abstinence.AIDS and behavior · 2020Article
- Gender and alcohol use: influences on HIV care continuum in a national cohort of patients with HIV.AIDS (London, England) · 2018Article
- Point-of-Care Urine Ethyl Glucuronide Testing to Detect Alcohol Use Among HIV-Hepatitis B Virus Coinfected Adults in Zambia.AIDS and behavior · 2018Article
- Predictors of Longitudinal Trajectories of Alcohol Consumption in People with HIV.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2018Article
- The Role of Current and Historical Alcohol Use in Hepatic Fibrosis Among HIV-Infected Individuals.AIDS and behavior · 2017Article
- Prevalence and Factors Associated with Hazardous Alcohol Use Among Persons Living with HIV Across the US in the Current Era of Antiretroviral Treatment.AIDS and behavior · 2017Article
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26 authors at 8 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Studies of persons living with HIV (PLWH) have compared current non-drinkers to at-risk drinkers without differentiating whether current non-drinkers had a prior alcohol use disorder (AUD). The purpose of this study was to compare current non-drinkers with and without a prior AUD on demographic and clinical characteristics to understand the impact of combining them. We included data from six sites across the US from 1/2013 to 3/2015. Patients completed tablet-based clinical assessments at routine clinic appointments using the most recent assessment. Current non-drinkers were identified by AUDIT-C scores of 0. We identified a prior probable AUD by a prior AUD diagnosis in the electronic medical record (EMR) or a report of attendance at alcohol treatment in the clinical assessment. We used multivariate logistic regression to examine factors associated with prior AUD. Among 2235 PLWH who were current non-drinkers, 36% had a prior AUD with more patients with an AUD identified by the clinical assessment than the EMR. Higher proportions with a prior AUD were male, depressed, and reported current drug use compared to non-drinkers without a prior AUD. Former cocaine/crack (70% vs. 25%), methamphetamine/crystal (49% vs. 16%), and opioid/heroin use (35% vs. 7%) were more commonly reported by those with a prior AUD. In adjusted analyses, male sex, past methamphetamine/crystal use, past marijuana use, past opioid/heroin use, past and current cocaine/crack use, and cigarette use were associated with a prior AUD. In conclusion, this study found that among non-drinking PLWH in routine clinical care, 36% had a prior AUD. We found key differences between those with and without prior AUD in demographic and clinical characteristics, including drug use and depression. These results suggest that non-drinkers are heterogeneous and need further differentiation in studies and that prior alcohol misuse (including alcohol treatment) should be included in behavioural health assessments as part of clinical care.
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