Baseline Neurocognitive Impairment (NCI) Is Associated With Incident Frailty but Baseline Frailty Does Not Predict Incident NCI in Older Persons With Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).
Mary Clare MastersJeremiah PerezKunling WuRonald J EllisKarl GoodkinSusan L KoletarAdriana AndradeJingyan YangTodd T BrownFrank J PalellaNed SacktorKatherine TassiopoulosKristine M ErlandsonPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)
NCI was associated with increased risk of frailty, but frailty was not associated with development of NCI. These findings suggest that the presence of NCI in PWH should prompt monitoring for the development of frailty and interventions to prevent frailty in this population.