
Polypharmacy, Hazardous Alcohol and Illicit Substance Use, and Serious Falls Among PLWH and Uninfected Comparators
Author(s) -
Julie A. Womack,
Terrence E. Murphy,
Christopher T Rentsch,
Janet P. Tate,
Harini Bathulapalli,
Alexandria Smith,
Jonathan Bates,
Samah Jarad,
Cynthia Gibert,
Maria C. RodriguezBarradas,
Phyllis C. Tien,
Michael T. Yin,
Thomas M Gill,
Gary E. Friedlaender,
Cynthia Brandt,
Amy C. Justice
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.162
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1944-7884
pISSN - 1525-4135
DOI - 10.1097/qai.0000000000002130
Subject(s) - medicine , polypharmacy , odds ratio , confidence interval , substance abuse , logistic regression , cohort , cohort study , psychiatry
Medication classes, polypharmacy, and hazardous alcohol and illicit substance abuse may exhibit stronger associations with serious falls among persons living with HIV (PLWH) than with uninfected comparators. We investigated whether these associations differed by HIV status.