Longitudinal neuropsychological evaluation of HIV-infected intravenous drug users.
prospective_cohort · Level II
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 8835281.
- No licence information is recorded for this record.
- Because redistribution is not established, this page shows the abstract only. Follow the links below for the full text.
Abstract
The present study aimed to describe the cognitive status of a group of HIV-positive asymptomatic intravenous drug users (IVDU) and changes which occurred over a 12-month follow-up period. Forty-two HIV positive IVDU were selected and matched for age, sex, educational level and pattern of drug abuse with 39 seronegative IVDU controls. Baseline and follow-up evaluation included neuropsychological tests exploring attention, language, memory, logic and visuomotor abilities, biological markers and clinical parameters. About one-third of both seropositive and seronegative subjects showed at baseline slight cognitive deficits, which did not change during the follow-up period.
Medical subject headings
- AIDS Dementia Complex
- HIV Infections
- Neuropsychological Tests
- Substance Abuse, Intravenous