| Literature DB >> 27699595 |
Gregory J Patts1, Debbie M Cheng2, Nneka Emenyonu3, Carly Bridden4, Natalia Gnatienko4, Christine A Lloyd-Travaglini5, Christine Ngabirano6, Tatiana Yaroslavtseva7, Winnie R Muyindike6, Sheri D Weiser3, Evgeny M Krupitsky7,8, Judith A Hahn3, Jeffrey H Samet4,9,10.
Abstract
Food insecurity (FI) is a documented problem associated with adverse health outcomes among HIV-infected populations. Little is known about the relationship between alcohol use and FI. We assessed whether heavy alcohol use was associated with FI among HIV-infected, antiretroviral therapy (ART)-naïve cohorts in Uganda and Russia. Inverse probability of treatment weighted logistic regression models were used to evaluate the association using cross-sectional baseline data. FI was experienced by half of the Russia cohort (52 %) and by a large majority of the Uganda cohort (84 %). We did not detect an association between heavy alcohol use and FI in either cohort (Russia: AOR = 0.80, 95 % CI 0.46, 1.40; Uganda: AOR = 1.00, 95 % CI 0.57, 1.74) or based on the overall combined estimate (AOR = 0.89, 95 % CI 0.60, 1.33). Future studies should explore the determinants of FI in HIV-infected populations to inform strategies for its mitigation.Entities:
Keywords: Alcohol; Food insecurity; HIV
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Year: 2017 PMID： 27699595 PMCID： PMC5303539 DOI： 10.1007/s10461-016-1556-x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: AIDS Behav ISSN： 1090-7165