This grant will support research that the EMBARC team is completing to quantify the impact of aging on the population of people living with HIV/AIDS in British Columbia, Canada. The study’s overall goal will be to apply advanced statistical methods to estimate and forecast the incidence, prevalence, mortality, and disability-adjusted life-years associated with chronic diseases among people living with HIV compared to a matched HIV-negative population. This will include examining cardiovascular, kidney, and liver diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, non-AIDS-defining cancers, diabetes mellitus, osteoarthritis, hypertension, and Alzheimer’s and/or non-HIV related dementia. Along with these somatic comorbidities, the group will also examine mental health disorders. This will include schizophrenia, mood and/or anxiety disorders, and personality disorders.
The research team is honored and thankful to CANFAR for their support of our continued research.