Abstract
Methods This is a cross-sectional study to evaluate the bone mineral density (BMD) in HIV-infected patients from a HIV unit of a Spanish university hospital. All patients with at least one evaluation of BMD of total body, lumbar spine and femoral neck measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) were included in the analysis. The MannWhitney U test was used to compare two populations (normal and abnormal bone mineralization), and the Kruskal Wallis test to compare normal, osteopenia and osteoporosis populations (based on the World Health Organization criteria). A uniand multivariant logistic regression were used to analyse the association between HIV disease status, demographics and antiretroviral treatments with the frequency of bone abnormalities.
Highlights
Bone demineralization is an emergent problem in HIV-1 infected patients for which the mechanism is multifactorial
Abstracts of the Ninth International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1758-2652-11-S1-info.pdf
All patients with at least one evaluation of bone mineral density (BMD) of total body, lumbar spine and femoral neck measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) were included in the analysis
Summary
Address: 1Lluita SIDA Foundation, Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital, Badalona, Spain and 2Statistics and Operations Research, Universitat Politecnica de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Abstracts of the Ninth International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1758-2652-11-S1-info.pdf
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