Epidemiological Study of the Markers of Aging in the Cohort of Patient HIV in Brest

Rational:

HIV pathology has been associated with an accelerated aging of the infected organism, without anyone knowing how to do it:

• the direct toxicity of the virus;
• CD4 immuno-depletion and its corollary of opportunistic infections, modification of microbiota, ... ;
• Reactive immune stimulation with chronic inflammation;
• the toxicity of antiretrovirals, particularly nucleoside analogues, responsible for acquired mitochondrial cytopathy;
• And, finally, specific environmental factors related to either the mode of acquisition of the infection (transfusion, drug addiction ...), or the frailty induced by the pathology (psychic or social).

The discordant data of the great cohorts must be supported by cohorts of smaller sizes, more exhaustive, both in item and data, more homogeneous in their social determinants.

Population and Methods:

This retrospective monocentric epidemiological study has several objectives:

• Description of the aging of the population followed on several organs
• Comparison with the data of the closest general population geographically, sociologically and temporally;
• Comparison of the relative age of the different organs with each other: synchronous aging or not?
• Evaluation of a screening / surveillance strategy adapted to local epidemiology

• Collect aging data from the functions:

Kidney: creatinine, calculated clearance of creatinine, microalbuminuria Liver: cytolysis, cholestasis, Fibroscan * pulmonary: pulmonary function tests Heart: ultrasound, ECG Brain: memory disorder screening test Psychism: depression test Musculoskeletal: Bone Densitometry, Calcium, Phosphoremia, Vitamin D Vascular: carotid intima-media thickness

• Evaluate the potential determinants:

Demographic: gender, age, phototype Viral: subtypes, time to infection, undetectable delay, viral load zenith Immune: lymphocyte immunophenotyping, nadir CD4 Iatrogen: antiretrovirals (year / patient exposure, compliance), other treatment Toxic: self-administered questionnaire (alcohol, tobacco and others), expired Hb CO, gammaGT, urinary toxicity test

• Correlate aging data of each organ with determinants, correlate between organs with and without adjustment to determinants
• Look for the closest population data in the literature and compared with those of the VIHVA cohort.

Ethical considerations:

The data of VIHVA study, approved by the local ethics committee (CCPPRB), was collected upon obtaining the non-opposition of patients.

Inclusion criteria

• HIV positive persons followed in Internal Medicine departement of Brest University Hospital

Exclusion criteria

• opposition of the study
• <18 ans