TY - JOUR
T1 - Impact of cocaine use on protease inhibitor-associated dyslipidemia in HIV-infected adults
AU - Li, Ji
AU - Lai, Hong
AU - Chen, Shaoguang
AU - Lai, Shenghan
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study was supported by grant U01DA040325 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health.
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PY - 2018/7/1
Y1 - 2018/7/1
N2 - Previous studies have demonstrated a link between protease inhibitor (PI)-based therapy and lipid dysregulation. The main objective of this study was to examine whether cocaine use may modify PI-associated dyslipidemia in adults. Between June 2003 and June 2014, 957 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected participants in Baltimore, Maryland were enrolled in a study that investigated HIV/antiretroviral therapy-associated comorbidities. Multiple linear and logistic regression models were fitted to examine the associations between PI therapy and lipid profiles for the pooled sample and cocaine use subgroups, respectively. Total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), TC/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) ratio, and atherogenic index of plasma (AIP) levels were positively associated with duration of PI-based therapy in long-term cocaine users (all p < 0.05). However, longer-term PI therapy was significantly associated with increased HDL-C in non-chronic cocaine users (β = 0.109, SE = 0.042, p < 0.05). The participants who received PI therapy ≥12 months and used cocaine ≥15 years were more likely to have hypertriglyceridemia (OR = 2.82, 95% CI = 1.63, 4.88) and abnormal AIP (OR = 1.73, 95% CI = 1.08, 2.79) as compared to their counterparts. Our findings showed that long-term cocaine use may exacerbate adverse effects of PI therapy on lipid metabolism, suggesting that reduced cocaine use may be considered an alternative approach to managing PI-associated dyslipidemia in chronic cocaine users with HIV infection.
AB - Previous studies have demonstrated a link between protease inhibitor (PI)-based therapy and lipid dysregulation. The main objective of this study was to examine whether cocaine use may modify PI-associated dyslipidemia in adults. Between June 2003 and June 2014, 957 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected participants in Baltimore, Maryland were enrolled in a study that investigated HIV/antiretroviral therapy-associated comorbidities. Multiple linear and logistic regression models were fitted to examine the associations between PI therapy and lipid profiles for the pooled sample and cocaine use subgroups, respectively. Total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), TC/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) ratio, and atherogenic index of plasma (AIP) levels were positively associated with duration of PI-based therapy in long-term cocaine users (all p < 0.05). However, longer-term PI therapy was significantly associated with increased HDL-C in non-chronic cocaine users (β = 0.109, SE = 0.042, p < 0.05). The participants who received PI therapy ≥12 months and used cocaine ≥15 years were more likely to have hypertriglyceridemia (OR = 2.82, 95% CI = 1.63, 4.88) and abnormal AIP (OR = 1.73, 95% CI = 1.08, 2.79) as compared to their counterparts. Our findings showed that long-term cocaine use may exacerbate adverse effects of PI therapy on lipid metabolism, suggesting that reduced cocaine use may be considered an alternative approach to managing PI-associated dyslipidemia in chronic cocaine users with HIV infection.
KW - Cocaine use
KW - HIV infection
KW - dyslipidemia
KW - protease inhibitor
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U2 - 10.1177/0956462418757126
DO - 10.1177/0956462418757126
M3 - Article
C2 - 29471762
AN - SCOPUS:85048476556
VL - 29
SP - 781
EP - 789
JO - International Journal of STD and AIDS
JF - International Journal of STD and AIDS
SN - 0956-4624
IS - 8
ER -