Everything fine so far? Physical and mental health in HIV-infected patients with virological success and long-term exposure to antiretroviral therapy
- Gesa Erdbeer
- Michael Sabranski
- Ina Sonntag
- Albrecht Stoehr
- Heinz-A. Horst
- Andreas Plettenberg
- Knud Schewe
- Stefan Unger
- Hans-J. Stellbrink
- Stefan Fenske
- Christian Hoffmann
DOIAbstract
Introduction: Little is known about the well-being on long-term exposure to antiretroviral therapy. The ACTG Augmented Symptoms Distress Module (ASDM) is a validated tool which measures the presence of a total of 22 symptoms seen with HIV and quantifies the extent to which they cause distress to the patient. Methods: ELBE was a cross-sectional study that consecutively included adult HIV-infected patients presenting with viral suppression (<50 HIV RNA copies/mL) and ART exposure for at least five years. Patients were evaluated by four different questionnaires, including ASDM. Results: Of a total of 894 patients included in the three participating ELBE centres, complete data on ASDM were available for 698 patients (626 male, 69 female, 3 tran...
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