Geriatric assessments and association with VACS index among HIV-infected older adults in San Francisco

MD John, M Greene, NA Hessol, R Zepf… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
… behavioral health in a large sample of HIV-positive older adults in the outpatient clinical
setting. … in older HIV-positive adults. We hypothesized that both age and VACS index would be …

An adapted frailty-related phenotype and the VACS index as predictors of hospitalization and mortality in HIV-infected and uninfected individuals

KM Akgün, JP Tate, K Crothers, S Crystal… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
… in HIV-infected and uninfected individuals. Risk increases with score. The VACS Index is
strongly correlated with inflammatory biomarkers. Among HIV+ men, the VACS Index predicts …

Gender-related risk factors improve mortality predictive ability of VACS Index among HIV-infected women

MH Cohen, AL Hotton, RC Hershow… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
… Aging Cohort Study (VACS) index might improve the accuracy of predicting mortality
among HIV-infected women on treatment. We evaluated the VACS index in women with HIV, …

Association of the VACS Index with hospitalization among people with HIV in the NA-ACCORD

Y Qian, RD Moore, SB Coburn… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
… Our source population were people with HIV in 5 clinical cohorts that … the VACS Index
calculation. According to the predefined clinically significant range of age 22 in the VACS Index 2.0…

The VACS index predicts mortality in a young, healthy HIV population starting highly active antiretroviral therapy

, … Disease Clinical Research Program HIV … - JAIDS Journal of …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
… of HIV cohorts in the North American AIDS Cohort … infected with HIV across the United
States and in the world. We validated the VACS index in a relatively young, healthy HIV-infected

[HTML][HTML] The VACS index accurately predicts mortality and treatment response among multi-drug resistant HIV infected patients participating in the options in …

ST Brown, JP Tate, TC Kyriakides, KA Kirkwood… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Index, the VACS Index is responsive to changes after baseline and that changes in the VACS
Index were … for baseline score suggests that the VACS Index also fulfills this requirement. …

Higher Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS) index scores in HIV-positive adults with CD4 counts< 200 cells/mm3 despite viral suppression

O Adeyemi, B Livak - JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
VACS variables (>10 points) stratified by CD4 <200 cells/mm 3 vs CD4 ≥200 cells/mm 3 . The
VACS index includes age, CD4 count, HIV-… We compared VACS index measures between …

The Veterans Aging Cohort Study Index is an effective tool to assess baseline frailty status in a contemporary cohort of HIV-infected persons

GV Escota, P Patel, JT Brooks, T Bush… - AIDS research and …, 2015 - liebertpub.com
… validated among younger HIV-uninfected individuals and among HIV-infected persons. … of
the VACS Index with baseline prefrailty and frailty among HIV-infected persons independent of …

Towards a combined prognostic index for survival in HIV infection: the role of 'non‐HIV'biomarkers

…, SL Fultz, KJ Bryant, VACS Project Team - HIV …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… a combined index for survival among those in treatment with HIV infection. We have shown
that ‘non-HIV’ … to HIV markers and are associated with immunodeficiency (CD4 cell count and …

Predictive accuracy of the Veterans Aging Cohort Study index for mortality with HIV infection: a North American cross cohort analysis

AC Justice, SP Modur, JP Tate, KN Althoff… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
… weighting upon CD4 count and HIV-1 RNA, the VACS index better reflects more of … VACS
index discriminates risk of mortality more effectively than an index restricted to CD4 count, HIV