Avoidance as a predictor of the biological course of HIV infection over a 7-year period in gay men. |
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| Authors: | Mulder, Cornelis L. de Vroome, Ernest M. M. van Griensven, Godfried J. P. Antoni, Michael H. Sandfort, Theo G. M. |
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| Abstract: | The present study prospectively investigated the relation between avoidance coping and active cognitive and behavioral coping and the progression of HIV infection over 7 years in 181 gay men. Findings revealed that for a number of medical and behavioral factors, (a) avoidance coping predicted a lower rate of decline in CD4 cells, (b) the proportional hazard (PH) attributable to avoidance of developing a syncytium-inducing HIV variant was 0.72 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.53–0.99, p?p? |
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