Emory Prevention Research Center, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA.
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Decatur, GA, USA.
AIDS Behav. 2018 Mar;22(3):848-852. doi: 10.1007/s10461-017-1866-7.
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), often pursued independent of prescribing clinicians, may interact with traditional treatments, yet CAM use has not been well characterized among people living with HIV (PLWH) in the combined antiretroviral therapy (ART) era. We analyzed data from the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (October 2012-April 2015) to characterize CAM use in PLWH on ART. CAM users were more likely to have lived longer with HIV, report more bothersome symptoms, be prescribed more benzodiazepines and opioids, and consume less nicotine and alcohol. Given its high prevalence, clinicians should routinely assess for CAM use and its impact among PLWH.
补充和替代医学(CAM),通常在开处方的临床医生之外进行,可能与传统治疗相互作用,但在联合抗逆转录病毒疗法(ART)时代,艾滋病毒感染者(PLWH)中 CAM 的使用情况尚未得到很好的描述。我们分析了退伍军人老龄化队列研究(2012 年 10 月至 2015 年 4 月)的数据,以描述接受 ART 的 PLWH 中 CAM 的使用情况。CAM 用户感染 HIV 的时间可能更长,报告的症状更令人烦恼,开的苯二氮卓类药物和阿片类药物更多,尼古丁和酒精的摄入量更少。鉴于其高患病率,临床医生应常规评估 PLWH 中 CAM 的使用情况及其影响。