1. Relationship between economic insecurity, inflammation, monocyte activation and intestinal integrity in children living with HIV in Uganda.
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Dirajlal-Fargo, Sahera, Albar, Zainab, Sattar, Abdus, Kulkarni, Manjusha, Bowman, Emily, Funderburg, Nicholas, Nazzinda, Rashidah, Kityo, Cissy, Musiime, Victor, and McComsey, Grace A.
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INTESTINAL mucosa physiology , *BIOMARKERS , *HIV-positive persons , *INFLAMMATION , *LONGITUDINAL method , *MONOCYTES , *POVERTY , *COMORBIDITY , *SOCIOECONOMIC factors , *CROSS-sectional method , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *CHILDREN - Abstract
We aimed to evaluate differences in socio-economic variables in a Ugandan cohort of children with perinatally acquired HIV (PHIVs), HIV exposed uninfected (HEU) and HIV unexposed uninfected (HIV-) children and their associations with markers of inflammation and intestinal integrity. This is a cross-sectional study in 57 PHIV, 59 HEU and 56 HIV – children aged 2–10 years old enrolled in Uganda. Mean age of all participants was 7 years and 55% were girls. Compared to HEU and HIV – children, PHIVs were more likely to have parents that only completed a primary education, live in a household without electricity and live in poverty (p≤0.034). PHIVs living in poverty had higher IL-6 (p=0.006), those with lack of electricity had higher hsCRP, IL6, sTNFRII and d-dimer (p≤0.048) and PHIVs with an unprotected water source had higher IL6 and d-dimer (p≤0.016). After adjusting for demographic and HIV variables, IL-6 and d-dimer remained associated with lack of electricity and having an unprotected water source only in PHIVs (p<0.019). Our findings suggest that addressing economic insecurity may mitigate the persistent low-level inflammation in HIV that lead to many end organ disease. Longitudinal studies are needed to better understand the impact of socioeconomic factors on HIV inflammation and comorbidities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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