Melvin, AJ;
Warshaw, M;
Compagnucci, A;
Saidi, Y;
Harrison, L;
Turkova, A;
Tudor-Williams, G;
(2017)
Hepatic, renal, hematologic, and inflammatory markers in HIV-infected children on long-term suppressive antiretroviral therapy.
Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
, 6
(3)
e109-e115.
10.1093/jpids/pix050.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Data on long-term toxicity of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in HIV-infected children are sparse. PENPACT-1 was an open-label trial in which HIV-infected children were assigned randomly to receive protease inhibitor (PI)- or nonnucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI)-based ART. METHODS: We examined changes in clinical, immunologic, and inflammatory markers from baseline to year 4 in the subset of children in the PENPACT-1 study who experienced viral suppression between week 24 and year 4 of ART. Liver enzyme, creatinine, and cholesterol levels and hematologic parameters were assessed during the trial. Cystatin C, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), interleukin 6 (IL-6), d-dimer, and soluble CD14 (sCD14) were assayed from cryopreserved specimens. RESULTS: Ninety-nine children (52 on PI-based and 47 on NNRTI-based ART) met inclusion criteria. The median age at initiation of ART was 6.5 years (interquartile range [IQR], 3.7-13.4 years), and 22% were aged < 3 years at ART initiation; 56% of the PI-treated children received lopinavir/ritonavir, and 70% of NNRTI-treated children received efavirenz initially. We found no evidence of significant clinical toxicity in either group; growth, liver, kidney, and hematologic parameters either remained unchanged or improved between baseline and year 4. Total cholesterol levels increased modestly, but no difference between the groups was found. IL-6 and hs-CRP levels decreased more after 4 years in the NNRTI-based ART group. The median change in IL-6 level was -0.35 pg/ ml in the PI-based ART group and -1.0 in the NNRTI-based ART group (P = .05), and the median change in hs-CRP level was 0.25 μg/ml in the PI-based ART group and -0.95 μg/ml in the NNRTI-based ART group (P = .005). CONCLUSION: These results support the safety of prolonged ART use in HIV-infected children and suggest that suppressive NNRTI-based regimens can be associated with lower levels of systemic inflammation.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Hepatic, renal, hematologic, and inflammatory markers in HIV-infected children on long-term suppressive antiretroviral therapy |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1093/jpids/pix050 |
Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.1093/jpids/pix050 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. All rights reserved. |
Keywords: | Inflammatory markers; inflammation; cd14 antigen; creatinine; efavirenz; cryopreservation; protease inhibitor; ritonavir; cholesterol measurement test; c-reactive protein; hematology; interleukin-6; kidney; liver; lopinavir; hiv infection; toxic effect; anti-retroviral agents; non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors; liver enzyme; total cholesterol; cystatin c measurement; immunology; penpact-1 trial; dimers; viral suppression |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Inst of Clinical Trials and Methodology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Inst of Clinical Trials and Methodology > MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10044972 |
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