Antiretrovirals, Fractures, and Osteonecrosis in a Large International HIV Cohort
Author(s) -
Álvaro H. Borges,
Jennifer Hoy,
Éric Florence,
Dalibor Sedláček,
Hans-Jürgen Stellbrink,
Vilma Uždavinienė,
Janez Tomažič,
Panagiotis GargalianosKakolyris,
Patrick Schmid,
Chloe Orkin,
Court Pedersen,
Clifford Leen,
Christian Pradier,
Fiona Mulcahy,
Anna Lisa Ridolfo,
Thérèse Staub,
Fernando Maltêz,
Rainer Weber,
Leo Flamholc,
Galina Kyselyova,
Jens Lundgren,
Amanda Mocroft
Publication year - 2017
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/cix167
Subject(s) - medicine , cumulative incidence , incidence (geometry) , coinfection , cohort , poisson regression , surgery , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , immunology , population , physics , environmental health , optics
Antiretrovirals (ARVs) affect bone density and turnover, but their effect on risk of fractures and osteonecrosis of the femoral head is less understood. We investigated if exposure to ARVs increases the risk of both bone outcomes.
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