ArticleAging and disease2018
Stronger Association between Insomnia Symptoms and Shorter Telomere Length in Old HIV-Infected Patients Compared with Uninfected Individuals.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Telomere length dynamics in adults living with HIV: A systematic review.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Pooled it
- Infection and telomere length: A systematic review.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
- The prevalence and moderating factors of sleep disturbances in people living with HIV: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2024Pooled it
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- Mendelian randomization and colocalization analyses reveal an association between short sleep duration or morning chronotype and altered leukocyte telomere length.Communications biology · 2023Article
- The association between sleep quality and telomere length: A systematic literature review.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2023Review
- Sleep Disorders in Human Immunodeficiency Virus: A Substudy of the Pharmacokinetics and Clinical Observations in People Over Fifty (POPPY) Study.Open forum infectious diseases · 2021Article
- HIV and Aging in Mainland China: Implications for Control and Prevention Research.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2019Review
- Negative Lifestyle Factors Specific to Aging Persons Living with HIV and Multimorbidity.Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS CareReview
- Insomnia in older HIV-positive patients.Sleep science (Sao Paulo, Brazil)Review
- Sleep Disturbance in the Context of HIV: A Concept Analysis.SAGE open nursingArticle
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Abstract
Growing evidence suggests that HIV infection may accelerate biological aging. Insomnia symptoms, particularly in later life, exacerbate cellular aging. We examined the association between insomnia symptoms and leukocyte telomere length (LTL), and further explored how this association was affected by HIV serostatus and age. Data were assessed from 244 HIV-infected individuals ≥40 years and 244 HIV-uninfected individuals who were frequency-matched by age, gender and education level. Insomnia symptoms were assessed by responses to four sleep-related questions covering the past month. We performed multivariable linear regression with logarithmically transformed LTL and reported exponentiated coefficients. HIV-infected individuals had shorter LTL compared to uninfected individuals (geometric mean 0.82 vs 0.89,
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