Tag: Sonia Napravnik

As people with HIV live longer lives with anti-retroviral therapy, lung cancer has emerged as a leading cause of death. This is primarily because people with HIV are twice as likely to smoke, and they face higher cancer risks at younger ages. Immunosuppression and inflammatory processes also play a role....

Hospitalization causes among persons with HIV (PWH) have shifted to non-AIDS conditions, but the complete disease profile of hospitalized PWH has not been well described. To inform hospitalization and readmission prevention efforts, Thibaut Davy-Mendez, PhD, MSPH, Sonia Napravnik, PhD, and Joseph J. Eron, MD, examined non-AIDS disease prevalence among PWH hospitalized in 4...

Age-related morbidity, including frailty and cardiometabolic disease, has become increasingly prevalent among people living with HIV (PWH), and each frailty characteristic may, independently and synergistically, play a role in cardiometabolic disease. Sonia Napravnik, PhD, conducted a cross-sectional analysis within a longitudinal clinical cohort to evaluate the prevalence of unique frailty...

As HIV care improves, people with Aids are now hospitalized more for non-AIDS conditions.  Despite this, the complete disease profile of hospitalized people with HIV has not been well described. To inform hospitalization and readmission prevention efforts, researchers with the institute examined non-AIDS disease prevalence among PWH hospitalized in 4...

Alcohol misuse is a major driver of the HIV epidemic, impacting the spread and treatment of the virus both in the U.S. and globally. Misuse can increase the prevalence of the virus and diminish the health of those living with HIV, by increasing sexual risk behaviors, reducing adherence to antiretroviral...