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ArticleGeroScience2023

Accelerated epigenetic aging in older adults with HIV disease: associations with serostatus, HIV clinical factors, and health literacy.

Steven Paul Woods, Antonio L Teixeira, Lais B Martins, Gabriel R Fries, Gabriela D Colpo, Natalia P Rocha

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Article in GeroScience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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8citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

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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

8 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Steven Paul Woods *Department of Psychology, University of Houston, 3695 Cullen Blvd., 126 Heyne Bldg. (Ste. 239d), Houston, Texas, 77004, USA. spwoods@uh.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-0776-4233
Antonio L Teixeira *Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, 1941 East Rd., Houston, Texas, 77054, USA.
Lais B MartinsDepartment of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, 1941 East Rd., Houston, Texas, 77054, USA.
Gabriel R FriesDepartment of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, 1941 East Rd., Houston, Texas, 77054, USA.
Gabriela D ColpoDepartment of Neurology, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, 6431 Fannin St., Houston, Texas, 77030, USA.
Natalia P RochaDepartment of Neurology, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston, 6431 Fannin St., Houston, Texas, 77030, USA.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston · USUniversity of Houston · US

Funding

STRUCTURAL NEUROIMAGING COREP30MH062512 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Jessica Lynette Montoya · 2001 to 2026
$50.4M
Prospective Memory in HIV-1 InfectionR01MH073419 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI WOODS, STEVEN PAUL · 2005 to 2017
$6.6M
NIH HHS R01-MH073419NIMH NIH HHS P30 MH062512NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH073419
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The prevalence of older persons with HIV (PWH) disease has increased considerably in the last 20 years, but our understanding of biological factors of aging and their clinical correlates among PWH remains limited. Study participants were 149 persons aged 50 and older, including 107 PWH and 42 seronegatives. All participants completed a blood draw, research medical evaluation, structured psychiatric interview, neurocognitive assessment, questionnaires, and measures of health literacy. Four epigenetic clocks were generated from stored blood samples using standardized laboratory methods. In regression models adjusting for sex and smoking status, PWH had significantly higher epigenetic aging acceleration values than seronegatives on all four indicators. Within the PWH sample, higher levels of epigenetic aging acceleration were moderately associated with lower current CD4 count, AIDS diagnoses, higher scores on the Veterans Aging Cohort Study Index, and lower telomere values. Higher epigenetic aging acceleration indices were also associated with lower health literacy among PWH. PWH experience accelerated aging as measured by a series of epigenetic clocks, which may be linked to immune compromise and risk of all-cause mortality. Health literacy may be a modifiable target for mitigating the risk of accelerated aging among older PWH.

Indexed as

Health LiteracyHIV InfectionsAgedAged, 80 and overAgingCohort StudiesEpigenesis, GeneticHumansMiddle AgedAgingBiological factorsChronic illnessImmunovirologyInfectious diseaseNumeracy

Identifiers

PMID36820957
PMCPMC10651616
OpenAlexW4321611324

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