Yield of yearly routine physical examination in HIV-1 infected patients is limited: A retrospective cohort study in the Netherlands.
Marleen A van AmsterdamSander van AssenHerman G SprengerKasper R WiltingYmkje StienstraWouter F W BiermanPublished in: PloS one (2017)
Annual physical examinations of HIV-infected patients with stable disease brought few new diagnoses that would have been missed without performing a routine examination. Our results suggest that standard assessments could be restricted to six-monthly measuring blood pressure in all patients and annually performing anogenital and digital rectal examination on MSM.
Keyphrases
- hiv infected patients
- hiv infected
- antiretroviral therapy
- blood pressure
- end stage renal disease
- physical activity
- mental health
- clinical practice
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- human immunodeficiency virus
- prognostic factors
- rectal cancer
- men who have sex with men
- adipose tissue
- patient reported outcomes
- insulin resistance