Domestic violence and childhood sexual abuse in HIV-infected women and women at risk for HIVM Cohen
CORE Center, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Am J Public Health 90:560-5. 2000
..The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence and effect of domestic violence and childhood sexual abuse in women with HIV or at risk for HIV infection...
Women in Rwanda: another world is possibleMardge H Cohen
Ruth M. Rothstein CORE Center for the Prevention, CARE, and Research of Infectious Diseases, Cook County Bureau of Health Services and Department of Medicine, Stroger, Hospital and Rush Medical College, Chicago, Ill 60612, USA
JAMA 294:613-5. 2005
- Medically eligible women who do not use HAART: the importance of abuse, drug use, and race
Mardge H Cohen
CORE Center, Cook County Hospital, Cook County Bureau of Health Services, Chicago, Ill, USA
Am J Public Health 94:1147-51. 2004
..We investigated the prevalence and characteristics of HIV-positive women who do not report highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) use...
- Women identified with HIV at labor and delivery: testing, disclosing and linking to care challenges
Mardge H Cohen
CORE Center and Department of Medicine, Stroger Formerly Cook County Hospital, 2020 W Harrison, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Matern Child Health J 12:568-76. 2008
..To determine if women with undocumented HIV status in late pregnancy or at labor and delivery who are rapidly tested and identified as HIV infected have high-risk behaviors and psychosocial obstacles hindering postpartum follow-up...
- Improvement in posttraumatic stress disorder in postconflict Rwandan women
Mardge H Cohen
Stroger Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 20:1325-32. 2011
..The purpose of this study is to examine longitudinal changes in PTSD in HIV-infected and uninfected Rwandan women who experienced the 1994 genocide...
- Ready or not--intrapartum prevention of perinatal HIV transmission in Illinois
Ann E Bryant Borders
Maternal Fetal Medicine Division, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
Matern Child Health J 11:485-93. 2007
..The overall readiness of Illinois birthing hospitals to comply with the 2003 Illinois HIV Perinatal Prevention Act and prevent perinatal HIV transmission, and the hospital characteristics that predict readiness were examined...
- Relationship of U1 cell HIV-stimulatory activity to bacterial vaginosis and HIV genital tract virus load
M Reza Zariffard
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612
AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 21:945-8. 2005
..Thus, while these data show a strong association of U1 stimulatory activity with BV, no influence of the U1 activity on genital tract HIV expression was observed...
- Trends in mortality and causes of death among women with HIV in the United States: a 10-year study
Audrey L French
CORE Center Stroger Cook County Hospital, Rush University, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 51:399-406. 2009
..To assess trends in mortality and cause of death for women with HIV, we studied deaths over a 10-year period among participants in the Women's Interagency HIV Study, a representative US cohort...
- Crack cocaine, disease progression, and mortality in a multicenter cohort of HIV-1 positive women
Judith A Cook
Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
AIDS 22:1355-63. 2008
..This study explores relationships between crack use and HIV-1 disease outcomes in a multicenter cohort of infected women...
- Effects of depressive symptoms and mental health quality of life on use of highly active antiretroviral therapy among HIV-seropositive women
Judith A Cook
Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60603, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 30:401-9. 2002
..These findings suggest that efforts to enhance women's access to psychological treatment may increase their use of the latest HIV therapies...
- Illicit drug use, depression and their association with highly active antiretroviral therapy in HIV-positive women
Judith A Cook
Center on Mental Health Services Research and Policy, Department of Psychiatry M C 912, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1601 W Taylor Street M C 912, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 89:74-81. 2007
..We examined the interaction of illicit drug use and depressive symptoms, and how they affect the subsequent likelihood of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) use among women with HIV/AIDS...
- Longitudinal relationships between use of highly active antiretroviral therapy and satisfaction with care among women living with HIV/AIDS
Jane K Burke-Miller
Center on Mental Health Services Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 104 S Michigan Ave, Suite 900, Chicago, IL 60603, USA
Am J Public Health 96:1044-51. 2006
..We used longitudinal data to examine the roles of 4 dimensions of patient satisfaction as both predictors and outcomes of use of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) among women in the United States with HIV/AIDS...
- Prevalence and correlates of elevated body mass index among HIV-positive and HIV-negative women in the Women's Interagency HIV Study
Basmattee Boodram
Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA
AIDS Patient Care STDS 23:1009-16. 2009
..In conclusion, risk factors for elevated BMI were similar for HIV+ and HIV- women in the WIHS. For HIV+ women, all markers of advanced HIV infection and ART use were additionally associated with lower BMI...
- Vaginal IL-8 levels are positively associated with Candida albicans and inversely with lactobacilli in HIV-infected women
Gregory T Spear
Department of Immunology Microbiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
J Reprod Immunol 78:76-9. 2008
..G. vaginalis and M. hominis were not significantly associated with IL-8. This study has shown an association between C. albicans and levels of IL-8 in mucosal genital fluid...
- Prevalence and predictors of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression in HIV-infected and at-risk Rwandan women
Mardge H Cohen
Departments of Medicine, John Stroger formerly Cook County Hospital and Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 18:1783-91. 2009
..This study measures trauma experiences of Rwandan women and identifies predictors associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depressive symptoms...
- Use of highly active antiretroviral therapy in a cohort of HIV-seropositive women
Judith A Cook
Mental Health Services Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, 104 S Michigan Ave, Suite 900, Chicago, IL 60603, USA
Am J Public Health 92:82-7. 2002
..This study examined longitudinal trends in use of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) among a cohort of HIV-positive participants in the Women' Interagency HIV Study...
- Awareness of hepatitis C infection among women with and at risk for HIV
Mardge H Cohen
CORE Center, Cook County Bureau of Health Services, Chicago, IL, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:1689-94. 2007
..Treatment guidelines recommend all HIV/HCV-co-infected persons be considered for hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatment, yet obstacles to testing and accessing treatment for HCV continue for women...
Perinatal HIV testing and diagnosis in Illinois after implementation of the Perinatal Rapid Testing InitiativeAmy E Wong
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 207:401.e1-6. 2012
..The objective of the study was to assess whether implementation of a statewide initiative was associated with changes in perinatal human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing practices...
- Prevalence and predictors of Toxoplasma seropositivity in women with and at risk for human immunodeficiency virus infection
Oluwatoyin Falusi
Cook County Hospital and Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Clin Infect Dis 35:1414-7. 2002
..HIV-infected women aged > or =50 years and those born outside of the United States were more likely to have latent Toxoplasma infection, with prevalences of 32% and 41%, respectively...
- Causes of death among women with human immunodeficiency virus infection in the era of combination antiretroviral therapy
Mardge H Cohen
Department of Medicine, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Am J Med 113:91-8. 2002
..Our data suggest that to decrease mortality further among HIV-infected women, attention must be paid to treatable conditions, such as hepatitis C, depression, and drug and tobacco use...
- AZT Availability in Illinois birthing hospitals: is the perinatal HIV prevention safety net in place?
Rebecca L Eary
University of Illinois School of Public Health, Community Health Sciences, Maternal and Child Health Division, Chicago, IL, USA
Matern Child Health J 11:313-8. 2007
..The objective of this study is to evaluate the availability and accessibility of zidovudine (AZT) in Illinois birthing hospitals...
- Relationship of HIV RNA and cytokines in saliva from HIV-infected individuals
Gregory T Spear
Department of Immunology Microbiology, Rush University Medical Center, 1653 W Congress Parkway, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol 45:129-36. 2005
..This study shows no association between inflammatory cytokine levels and HIV levels in saliva and suggests that saliva HIV levels are more influenced by blood HIV RNA levels than oral inflammation...
- Vitamin D insufficiency may impair CD4 recovery among Women's Interagency HIV Study participants with advanced disease on HAART
Mariam Aziz
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
AIDS 27:573-8. 2013
..Recent studies in HIV-infected men report an association between low vitamin D (25OH-D) and CD4 recovery on HAART. We sought to test this relationship in the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS)...
- The association between diet and physical activity on insulin resistance in the Women's Interagency HIV Study
Nancy A Hessol
Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0613, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 62:74-80. 2013
..To evaluate the association of diet and physical activity with insulin resistance (IR) in HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected women...
- The association of HIV status with bacterial vaginosis and vitamin D in the United States
Audrey L French
Stroger Hospital of Cook County The CORE Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 20:1497-503. 2011
..To estimate the association between vitamin D deficiency and bacterial vaginosis (BV) among nonpregnant HIV-infected and uninfected women...
- Smoking cessation among women with and at risk for HIV: are they quitting?
David Goldberg
Division of General Medicine, John H Stroger, Jr Hospital of Cook County and Rush University, 1901 W Harrison Street, 9th Floor, Administrative Building, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA
J Gen Intern Med 25:39-44. 2010
..While recent US population-wide surveys report annual sustained smoking cessation rates of 3.4-8.5%, prospective data are lacking on cessation rates for HIV-infected smokers...
- Vitamin A deficiency and genital viral burden in women infected with HIV-1
Audrey L French
Division of Infectious Diseases, Durand 115, Cook County Hospital, 1835 West Harrison Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
Lancet 359:1210-2. 2002
..We noted no association between retinol status and genital HIV-1 load. Our findings lend support to those of studies that reported no association between retinol deficiency and perinatal HIV-1 transmission...
- Utility of Amsel criteria, Nugent score, and quantitative PCR for Gardnerella vaginalis, Mycoplasma hominis, and Lactobacillus spp. for diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis in human immunodeficiency virus-infected women
Beverly E Sha
Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
J Clin Microbiol 43:4607-12. 2005
..In this cohort, Amsel criteria were poorly predictive of BV. PCR quantification of G. vaginalis and M. hominis from CVL is significantly more sensitive than Amsel criteria for diagnosing BV...
- Healthcare use by varied highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) strata: HAART use, discontinuation, and naivety
Herminia Palacio
Harris County Public Health and Environmental Services, 2223 West Loop South, Houston, TX 77027, USA
AIDS 18:621-30. 2004
..Furthermore, the discontinuation of HAART was associated with a loss of the reduction in hospital use that was achieved with HAART...
- Impact of drug abuse treatment modalities on adherence to ART/HAART among a cohort of HIV seropositive women
Farzana Kapadia
Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 34:161-70. 2008
..Concerted efforts to enroll individuals with drug use histories in treatment programs are warranted to improve HIV disease outcomes...
- Predictors of proteinuria and renal failure among women with HIV infection
Lynda Anne Szczech
Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
Kidney Int 61:195-202. 2002
..This study examines the risk factors for proteinuria and renal failure in a large cohort of HIV-infected women not selected for the presence of renal disease...
- Depressive symptoms and AIDS-related mortality among a multisite cohort of HIV-positive women
Judith A Cook
Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, 60603, USA
Am J Public Health 94:1133-40. 2004
..We examined associations between depressive symptoms and AIDS-related mortality after controlling for antiretroviral therapy use, mental health treatment, medication adherence, substance abuse, clinical indicators, and demographic factors...
- Mortality among participants in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study and the Women's Interagency HIV Study
Nancy A Hessol
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94122, USA
Clin Infect Dis 44:287-94. 2007
..We examined temporal trends and risk factors for accident- and injury-related mortality among HIV-infected and -uninfected participants in the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) and the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS)...
- Patterns, predictors, and consequences of initial regimen type among HIV-infected women receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy
Elizabeth T Golub
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
Clin Infect Dis 46:305-12. 2008
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- Incidence of lipoatrophy and lipohypertrophy in the women's interagency HIV study
Phyllis C Tien
Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 34:461-6. 2003
..To estimate the incidence of lipoatrophy and lipohypertrophy among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected women from the Women's Interagency HIV Study...
- The prognostic importance of changes in CD4+ cell count and HIV-1 RNA level in women after initiating highly active antiretroviral therapy
Kathryn Anastos
Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA
Ann Intern Med 140:256-64. 2004
..The prognostic value of CD4+ cell counts and HIV-1 RNA levels attained after the initiation of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) compared with before the initiation of HAART has not been well defined...
- Prevalence and predictors of metabolic syndrome among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected women in the Women's Interagency HIV Study
Magdalena E Sobieszczyk
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 48:272-80. 2008
..To assess the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetSynd) among participants of the Women's Interagency HIV Study and to describe the association of MetSynd with HIV infection, antiretroviral therapies, and sociodemographic factors...
- Definition of proteinuria among women with HIV infection
Lynda Anne Szczech
Kidney Int 65:1519. 2004
- Using point-of-care testing to make rapid HIV-1 tests in labor really rapid
Mardge H Cohen
AIDS 17:2121-4. 2003
- The association of bone mineral density with HIV infection and antiretroviral treatment in women
Kathryn Anastos
Montefiore Medical Centre, Bronx, NY, USA
Antivir Ther 12:1049-58. 2007
..Low bone mineral density (BMD) has been reported in HIV-infected women and men...
- Association between renal disease and outcomes among HIV-infected women receiving or not receiving antiretroviral therapy
Lynda Anne Szczech
Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
Clin Infect Dis 39:1199-206. 2004
..The associations of proteinuria and an elevated creatinine level with progression to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and death in the era of highly antiretroviral therapy (HAART) have not been fully described...
- Marginal structural models for estimating the effect of highly active antiretroviral therapy initiation on CD4 cell count
Stephen R Cole
Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Am J Epidemiol 162:471-8. 2005
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- Impact of highly active antiretroviral therapy on anemia and relationship between anemia and survival in a large cohort of HIV-infected women: Women's Interagency HIV Study
Kiros Berhane
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 9011, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 37:1245-52. 2004
..Anemia is common in HIV-infected individuals and may be associated with decreased survival...
- Neuropsychological functioning in a cohort of HIV- and hepatitis C virus-infected women
Jean L Richardson
Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
AIDS 19:1659-67. 2005
..To evaluate the neurocognitive function in 220 women enrolled in the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS), a study of disease progression in women living with HIV/AIDS and in HIV-negative controls...
- Impact of drug treatment on subsequent sexual risk behavior in a multisite cohort of drug-using women: a report from the Women's Interagency HIV Study
Mary H Latka
Center for Urban Epidemiological Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
J Subst Abuse Treat 29:329-37. 2005
..We examined whether entry into drug treatment was associated with subsequent alterations in sexual behavior among a group of drug-using women...
- Rapid HIV-1 testing during labor: a multicenter study
Marc Bulterys
Division of HIV AIDS Prevention, Surveillance and Epidemiology, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
JAMA 292:219-23. 2004
..Timely testing of women in labor with undocumented human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) status could enable immediate provision of antiretroviral prophylaxis...
- Effect of discontinuing antiretroviral therapy on survival of women initiated on highly active antiretroviral therapy
Yolanda Barron
Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
AIDS 18:1579-84. 2004
..To estimate the effect of discontinuing antiretroviral therapy (ART) on survival, among women who initiated highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART)...
- Acquisition of new sexual partners among women with HIV infection: patterns of disclosure and sexual behavior within new partnerships
Tracey E Wilson
Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA
AIDS Educ Prev 19:151-9. 2007
..Conclusions: These findings highlight the importance of ongoing support for sexual risk reduction among women with HIV-infection and for strategies that reduce the strength of relationships between ART beliefs and sexual risk behavior...
- Primary human immunodeficiency virus infection during pregnancy detected by repeat testing
Steven Nesheim
Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 197:149.e1-5. 2007
..The purpose of this study was to describe characteristics of pregnant women with newly acquired human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection that was identified by repeat testing...
- Rapid human immunodeficiency virus-1 testing on labor and delivery in 17 US hospitals: the MIRIAD experience
Denise J Jamieson
Division of HIV AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 197:S72-82. 2007
..Routine rapid testing during labor provides a feasible, acceptable, and accurate way to identify HIV-infected women before delivery...
- Ten-year predicted coronary heart disease risk in HIV-infected men and women
Robert C Kaplan
Department of Epidemiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
Clin Infect Dis 45:1074-81. 2007
..Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), in addition to traditional vascular risk factors, may affect coronary heart disease (CHD) risk in individuals with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection...
- Relationship between smoking and human papillomavirus infections in HIV-infected and -uninfected women
Howard Minkoff
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA
J Infect Dis 189:1821-8. 2004
..Among HIV-infected women, smoking is associated with a significantly higher prevalence and incidence of HPV infection. Smoking during HIV infection may alter the natural history of HPV infection and increase the risk of cervical disease...
- Female genital-tract HIV load correlates inversely with Lactobacillus species but positively with bacterial vaginosis and Mycoplasma hominis
Beverly E Sha
Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Rush University Medical Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois, USA
J Infect Dis 191:25-32. 2005
..Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) acquisition. We examined the association between BV and BV-associated bacteria and expression of HIV in the female genital tract...
