Stephanie A Ruderman, Lydia N Drumright, Joseph A C Delaney, Allison R Webel, Annette L Fitzpatrick, Bridget M Whitney, Robin M Nance, Andrew W Hahn, Jimmy Ma, L Sarah Mixson, Sherif Eltonsy, Amanda L Willig, Kenneth H Mayer, Sonia Napravnik, Meredith Greene, Mary McCaul, Edward Cachay, Stephen B Kritchevsky, Steven N Austad, Alan Landay, Michael S Saag, Mari M Kitahata, Bryan Lau, Catherine Lesko, Geetanjali Chander, Heidi M Crane, Michelle C Odden
"Sick quitting," a phenomenon describing reductions in alcohol consumption following poor health, may explain observations that alcohol appears protective for frailty risk. We examined associations between frailty and reductions in drinking frequency among people with HIV (PWH). At six Centers for AIDS Research Network of Integrated Clinical Systems (CNICS) sites between January 2012 and August 2021, we assessed whether frailty, measured through validated modified frailty phenotype, precedes reductions in drinking frequency...
January 2024: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care: JANAC