Search Results - "Bryant, Kendall J."
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Does smoking cessation reduce other substance use, psychiatric symptoms, and pain symptoms? Results from an emulated hypothetical randomized trial of US veterans
Published in PloS one (03-07-2024)“…Quitting smoking may lead to improvement in substance use, psychiatric symptoms, and pain, especially among high-risk populations who are more likely to…”
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Relationship Between Alcohol Use Categories and Noninvasive Markers of Advanced Hepatic Fibrosis in HIV-Infected, Chronic Hepatitis C Virus–Infected, and Uninfected Patients
Published in Clinical infectious diseases (15-05-2014)“…Background. It is unclear if the risk of liver disease associated with different levels of alcohol consumption is higher for patients infected with human…”
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Machine learning selected smoking-associated DNA methylation signatures that predict HIV prognosis and mortality
Published in Clinical epigenetics (13-12-2018)“…The effects of tobacco smoking on epigenome-wide methylation signatures in white blood cells (WBCs) collected from persons living with HIV may have important…”
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History of Alcohol Consumption and HIV Status Related to Functional Connectivity Differences in the Brain During Working Memory Performance
Published in Current HIV research (01-01-2020)“…Poorer working memory function has previously been associated with alcohol misuse, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) positive status, and risky behavior…”
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Combining Charlson comorbidity and VACS indices improves prognostic accuracy for all-cause mortality for patients with and without HIV in the Veterans Health Administration
Published in Frontiers in medicine (31-01-2024)“…As people age with HIV (PWH), many comorbid diseases are more common than among age matched comparators without HIV (PWoH). While the Veterans Aging Cohort…”
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Integrated stepped alcohol treatment for patients with HIV and at-risk alcohol use: a randomized trial
Published in Addiction science & clinical practice (29-07-2020)“…Abstract Background At-risk levels of alcohol use threaten the health of patients with HIV (PWH), yet evidence-based strategies to decrease alcohol use and…”
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Experimentally Induced Reductions in Alcohol Consumption and Brain, Cognitive, and Clinical Outcomes in Older Persons With and Those Without HIV Infection (30-Day Challenge Study): Protocol for a Nonrandomized Clinical Trial
Published in JMIR research protocols (02-04-2024)“…Both alcohol consumption and HIV infection are associated with worse brain, cognitive, and clinical outcomes in older adults. However, the extent to which…”
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Role of substance use in HIV care cascade outcomes among people who inject drugs in Russia
Published in Addiction science & clinical practice (04-12-2017)“…Engaging people who drink alcohol or inject drugs in HIV care can be challenging, particularly in Eastern Europe. Healthcare facilities in Russia are organized…”
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Racial/ethnic differences in the association between alcohol use and mortality among men living with HIV
Published in Addiction science & clinical practice (22-01-2018)“…Increasing alcohol use is associated with increased risk of mortality among patients living with HIV (PLWH). This association varies by race/ethnicity among…”
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Discrimination, Mental Health, and Substance Use Disorders Among Sexual Minority Populations
Published in LGBT health (01-08-2016)“…Sexual minority (lesbian, gay, bisexual) populations have a higher prevalence of mental health and substance use disorders compared to their heterosexual…”
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Association of Prescribed Opioids With Increased Risk of Community-Acquired Pneumonia Among Patients With and Without HIV
Published in JAMA internal medicine (01-03-2019)“…Some opioids are known immunosuppressants; however, the association of prescribed opioids with clinically relevant immune-related outcomes is understudied,…”
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Safety of Gabapentin Prescribed for Any Indication in a Large Clinical Cohort of 571,718 US Veterans with and without Alcohol Use Disorder
Published in Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research (01-09-2020)“…Background Gabapentin is prescribed for seizures and pain and has efficacy for treating alcohol use disorder (AUD) starting at doses of 900 milligrams per day…”
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Risk of mortality and physiologic injury evident with lower alcohol exposure among HIV infected compared with uninfected men
Published in Drug and alcohol dependence (01-04-2016)“…Highlights • Individuals with HIV onantiretroviral treatment (ART) experience mortality at lower levels of alcohol use. • Individuals with HIV experience…”
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Interventions to Reduce Unhealthy Alcohol Use among Primary Care Patients with HIV: the Health and Motivation Randomized Clinical Trial
Published in Journal of general internal medicine : JGIM (01-10-2019)“…Background Unhealthy alcohol use has adverse effects on HIV treatment. Screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) has some evidence of…”
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Level of Alcohol Use Associated with HIV Care Continuum Targets in a National U.S. Sample of Persons Living with HIV Receiving Healthcare
Published in AIDS and behavior (01-01-2019)“…We evaluated associations between levels of alcohol use and HIV care continuum components using national Veterans Aging Cohort Study data for all patients with…”
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Alcohol Consumption and Illicit Drug Use: Associations With Fall, Fracture, and Acute Health Care Utilization Among People With HIV Infection
Published in Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) (01-04-2024)“…Given alcohol and/or other drug (AOD) use occurs among people with HIV (PWH), we examined its association with falls and fall-related outcomes and whether…”
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Ethical Issues in a Stage 1 Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Feasibility Study and Trial to Reduce Alcohol Use Among HIV-Infected Outpatients in Western Kenya
Published in Journal of empirical research on human research ethics (01-07-2012)“…epidemics of both HIV/AIDS and alcohol abuse in sub-Saharan Africa have spurred the conduct of local behavioral therapy trials for these problems, but the…”
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HIV Status, Burden of Comorbid Disease, and Biomarkers of Inflammation, Altered Coagulation, and Monocyte Activation
Published in Clinical infectious diseases (01-07-2012)“…Background. Biomarkers of inflammation, altered coagulation, and monocyte activation are associated with mortality and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the…”
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Long-term alcohol use patterns and HIV disease severity
Published in AIDS (London) (01-06-2017)“…OBJECTIVE:We examined the relationship between alcohol use trajectories and HIV disease severity among men and women participating in the Veterans Aging Cohort…”
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Integrated stepped alcohol treatment with contingency management for unhealthy alcohol use among people with HIV: A randomized controlled trial
Published in Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) (25-09-2024)“…We examined the impact of integrated stepped alcohol treatment with contingency management (ISAT+CM) on alcohol abstinence among people with HIV (PWH) and…”
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