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Do people living with HIV experience greater age advancement than their HIV-negative counterparts?

De Francesco, D; Wit, FW; Bürkle, A; Oehlke, S; Kootstra, NA; Winston, A; Franceschi, C; ... The Co-morBidity in Relation to AIDS (COBRA) Collaboration, .; + view all (2019) Do people living with HIV experience greater age advancement than their HIV-negative counterparts? AIDS , 33 (2) pp. 259-268. 10.1097/QAD.0000000000002063. Green open access

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Abstract

OBJECTIVES: Despite successful antiretroviral (ARV) therapy, people living with HIV (PLWH) may show signs of premature/accentuated aging. We compared established biomarkers of aging in PLWH, appropriately-chosen HIV-negative individuals, and blood donors, and explored factors associated with biological age advancement. DESIGN: Cross-sectional analysis of 134 PLWH on suppressive ARV therapy, 79 lifestyle-comparable HIV-negative controls aged ≥45 years from the Co-morBidity in Relation to AIDS (COBRA) cohort, and 35 age-matched blood donors (BD). METHODS: Biological age was estimated using a validated algorithm based on ten biomarkers. Associations between 'age advancement' (biological minus chronological age) and HIV status/parameters, lifestyle, cytomegalovirus (CMV), hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections were investigated using linear regression. RESULTS: The average (95% CI) age advancement was greater in both HIV-positive [13.2 (11.6, 14.9) years] and HIV-negative [5.5 (3.8, 7.2) years] COBRA participants compared to BD [-7.0 (-4.1, -9.9) years, both p's < 0.001)], but also in HIV-positive compared to HIV-negative participants (p < 0.001). Chronic HBV, higher anti-CMV IgG titer and CD8 T-cell count were each associated with increased age advancement, independently of HIV-status/group. Among HIV-positive participants, age advancement was increased by 3.5 (0.1, 6.8) years among those with nadir CD4 < 200 cells/μL and by 0.1 (0.06, 0.2) years for each additional month of exposure to saquinavir. CONCLUSIONS: Both treated PLWH and lifestyle-comparable HIV-negative individuals show signs of age advancement compared to BD, to which persistent CMV, HBV co-infection and CD8 T-cell activation may have contributed. Age advancement remained greatest in PLWH and was related to prior immunodeficiency and cumulative saquinavir exposure.

Type: Article
Title: Do people living with HIV experience greater age advancement than their HIV-negative counterparts?
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000002063
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/QAD.0000000000002063
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0).
Keywords: Aging; HIV; Accelerated aging; Biomarkers of aging; Premature aging; Biological age
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10060999
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