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Published in: Current HIV/AIDS Reports 1/2021

01-02-2021 | Gestational Diabetes | HIV Pathogenesis and Treatment (AL Landay and NS Utay, Section Editors)

Non-communicable Diseases in Pregnant and Postpartum Women Living with HIV: Implications for Health Throughout the Life Course

Authors: Risa M. Hoffman, Caitlin Newhouse, Brian Chu, Jeffrey S. A. Stringer, Judith S. Currier

Published in: Current HIV/AIDS Reports | Issue 1/2021

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Abstract

Purpose of Review

The development of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in pregnant women living with HIV can be a harbinger of future NCD-related morbidity and mortality. This review focuses on the NCDs that complicate pregnancy and the postpartum period, including hypertensive complications, hyperglycemic disorders, excessive gestational weight gain, and bone mineral density losses. For each disease process, we explore the role of HIV as a possible driver of excess risk, the immediate consequences of these complications on pregnancy outcomes and maternal and infant health, and possible implications for long-term women’s health.

Recent Findings

Countries with the highest burden of HIV also shoulder a high burden of NCDs that complicate pregnancy, including hypertensive disorders, hyperglycemic disorders, weight gain, and osteopenia. This double burden of disease is a significant public health threat for reproductive-age women, with the potential for serious short- and long-term consequences for both women and their infants. Additionally, as the global first-line antiretroviral therapy regimens increasingly include integrase inhibitors, unhealthy weight gain associated with this drug class poses additional risk for NCD-related pregnancy complications and their persistence postpartum.

Summary

Further research is needed to better define prevalence of NCD complications in pregnancy, elucidate HIV-specific and traditional factors associated with poor outcomes, and to develop interventions to reduce risk and avoid downstream complications in those at highest risk.
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Metadata
Title
Non-communicable Diseases in Pregnant and Postpartum Women Living with HIV: Implications for Health Throughout the Life Course
Authors
Risa M. Hoffman
Caitlin Newhouse
Brian Chu
Jeffrey S. A. Stringer
Judith S. Currier
Publication date
01-02-2021
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Current HIV/AIDS Reports / Issue 1/2021
Print ISSN: 1548-3568
Electronic ISSN: 1548-3576
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11904-020-00539-6

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