The Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS) Index and Neurocognitive Change: A Longitudinal Study
Author(s) -
María J. Marquine,
Jessica L. Montoya,
Anya Umlauf,
Pariya L. Fazeli,
Ben Gouaux,
Robert K. Heaton,
Ronald J. Ellis,
Scott Letendre,
Igor Grant,
David J. Moore
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciw328
Subject(s) - medicine , neurocognitive , cohort study , cohort , longitudinal study , index (typography) , gerontology , frailty index , psychiatry , cognition , pathology , computer science , world wide web
The Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS) Index, a composite marker of disease severity among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected persons, has been associated with concurrent risk for neurocognitive impairment (NCI). The present study examined whether the VACS Index predicts longitudinal neurocognitive change.
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