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Observational studyMedicine2017

Long-term follow-up of elite controllers: Higher risk of complications with HCV coinfection, no association with HIV disease progression.

Kristen A Stafford, Zahra Rikhtegaran Tehrani, Saman Saadat, Maryam Ebadi, Robert R Redfield, Mohammad M Sajadi

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Observational study in Medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 32% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Approach to the management of paediatric HIV spontaneous controllers.Southern African journal of infectious diseases · 2022
    Article
  3. High rates of long-term progression in HIV-1-positive elite controllers.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2021
    Article
  4. Article
  5. When do co-infections matter?Current opinion in infectious diseases · 2018
    Review
  6. Current Treatment Options for HIV Elite Controllers: a Review.Current treatment options in infectious diseases · 2018
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Kristen A StaffordInstitute of Human Virology Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamedan, Hamadan Province, Iran Department of Medicine, Baltimore VA Medical Center, Baltimore, MD.
Zahra Rikhtegaran Tehrani
Saman Saadat
Maryam Ebadi
Robert R Redfield
Mohammad M Sajadi
Institute of Human Virology · NGHamedan University of Medical Sciences · IRUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore · US

Funding

Maryland's Organized Research Effort in Women's Health (MORE-WH)K12HD043489 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI TRACY, J. KATHLEEN · 2002 to 2016
$7.0M
HIV-1 acidic epitope discovery from broadly neutralizing seroantibodiesR01AI110259 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI SAJADI, MOHAMMAD MOHSENI · 2015 to 2019
$1.9M
Discovery of acidic epitopes for HIV-1 broadly neutralizing seroantibodiesI01BX002358 · VA · BALTIMORE VA MEDICAL CENTER · PI SAJADI, MOHAMMAD MOHSENI · 2015 to 2019
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BLRD VA I01 BX002358NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI110259NICHD NIH HHS K12 HD043489
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To estimate the effect of hepatitis C virus (HCV) coinfection on the development of complications and progression of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease among HIV-infected elite controllers.Single-center retrospective cohort. Kaplan-Meier methods, prevalence ratios, and Cox proportional-hazards models were used.In all, 55 HIV-infected elite controllers were included in this study. Among them, 45% were HIV/HCV coinfected and 55% were HIV mono-infected. Median follow-up time for the cohort was 11 years. Twenty-five patients experienced a complication and 16 lost elite controller status during the study period. HCV coinfected patients were 4.78 times (95% confidence interval 1.50-15.28) more likely to develop complications compared with HIV mono-infected patients. There was no association between HCV coinfection status and loss of elite control (hazard ratio 0.75, 95% confidence interval 0.27-2.06).Hepatitis C virus coinfection was significantly associated with the risk of complications even after controlling for sex, injecting drug use, and older age. HCV coinfected patients had higher levels of cellular activation while also having similar levels of lipopolysaccharide and soluble CD14. HCV coinfection was not associated with loss of elite controller status. Taken together, this suggests that HCV coinfection does not directly affect HIV replication dynamics or natural history, but that it may act synergistically with HIV to produce a greater number of associated complications. Continued follow-up will be needed to determine whether HCV cure through the use of direct-acting antivirals among HIV/HCV coinfected elite controllers will make the risk for complications among these patients similar to their HIV mono-infected counterparts.

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AdultCoinfectionDisease ProgressionFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHepatitis CHIV InfectionsHumansKaplan-Meier EstimateMaleMiddle AgedPrevalenceProportional Hazards ModelsRetrospective StudiesRisk FactorsTime Factors

Identifiers

PMID28658155
PMCPMC5500077
OpenAlexW2725442401

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