Insomnia symptoms and biomarkers of monocyte activation, systemic inflammation, and coagulation in HIV : Veterans Aging Cohort Study

BACKGROUND: Insomnia may be a risk factor for cardiovascular disease in HIV (HIV-CVD); however, mechanisms have yet to be elucidated.

METHODS: We examined cross-sectional associations of insomnia symptoms with biological mechanisms of HIV-CVD (immune activation, systemic inflammation, and coagulation) among 1,542 people with HIV from the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS) Biomarker Cohort. Past-month insomnia symptoms were assessed by the item, "Difficulty falling or staying asleep?," with the following response options: "I do not have this symptom" or "I have this symptom and…" "it doesn't bother me," "it bothers me a little," "it bothers me," "it bothers me a lot." Circulating levels of the monocyte activation marker soluble CD14 (sCD14), inflammatory marker interleukin-6 (IL-6), and coagulation marker D-dimer were determined from blood specimens. Demographic- and fully-adjusted (CVD risk factors, potential confounders, HIV-related factors) regression models were constructed, with log-transformed biomarker variables as the outcomes. We present the exponentiated regression coefficient (exp[b]) and its 95% confidence interval (CI).

RESULTS: We observed no significant associations between insomnia symptoms and sCD14 or IL-6. For D-dimer, veterans in the "Bothers a Lot" group had, on average, 17% higher D-dimer than veterans in the "No Difficulty Falling or Staying Asleep" group in the demographic-adjusted model (exp[b] = 1.17, 95%CI = 1.01-1.37, p = .04). This association was nonsignificant in the fully-adjusted model (exp[b] = 1.09, 95%CI = 0.94-1.26, p = .27).

CONCLUSION: We observed little evidence of relationships between insomnia symptoms and markers of biological mechanisms of HIV-CVD. Other mechanisms may be responsible for the insomnia-CVD relationship in HIV; however, future studies with comprehensive assessments of insomnia symptoms are warranted.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:16

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PloS one - 16(2021), 2 vom: 09., Seite e0246073

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Polanka, Brittanny M [VerfasserIn]
Kundu, Suman [VerfasserIn]
So-Armah, Kaku A [VerfasserIn]
Freiberg, Matthew S [VerfasserIn]
Gupta, Samir K [VerfasserIn]
Zapolski, Tamika C B [VerfasserIn]
Hirsh, Adam T [VerfasserIn]
Bedimo, Roger J [VerfasserIn]
Budoff, Matthew J [VerfasserIn]
Butt, Adeel A [VerfasserIn]
Chang, Chung-Chou H [VerfasserIn]
Gottlieb, Stephen S [VerfasserIn]
Marconi, Vincent C [VerfasserIn]
Womack, Julie A [VerfasserIn]
Stewart, Jesse C [VerfasserIn]

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Biomarkers
Fibrin Fibrinogen Degradation Products
Fibrin fragment D
Interleukin-6
Journal Article
Lipopolysaccharide Receptors
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

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Date Completed 23.07.2021

Date Revised 16.07.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1371/journal.pone.0246073

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NLM321214315