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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr HIV/AIDS Rep. 2019 Feb;16(1):82–95. doi: 10.1007/s11904-019-00421-0

Table 3.

Relationship between current depression and domain specific cognitive performance in people living with HIV in the era of effective antiretrovirals (ARVs): Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses.

On ARVs

(%)
Cognitive Domains
Study N EF FLU ATT/WM PS LRN/MEM VS Motor
Cross-sectional
Questionnaires

Rubin (2014)[30] 708 65 *
WIHS

Rubin (2017)[31] 646 77 * * *
WIHS

Haddow (2018)[48] 448 89 ns ns ns ** ns
CIPHER

Starace (2000)[51] 395 74 ns ns ns ns ns
ICONA

Shimizu (2011)[33] 285 72 * ns
Hawaii Aging with HIV

Tymchuk (2018)[55] 265 93 *

Castellon (2006)[56] 247 - * ns ns * ns ns

Ammassari (2004)[61] 135 100 ns ns ns ns ns
ICONA

Akolo (2014)[74] 133 0 ns ns ns ns ns
Braganca (2011)[34] 130 78 * ** ** * **

Bryant (2015)[78] 120 82 ns ns ** ns *

Harrison (2017)[79] 103 100 ** ns

Diagnostic Interview

Fellows (2014)[32] 186 77 ** * *
MHBB

Gibbie (2006)[63]B 129 93 * * *

Lawler (2010)[64] 120 98 ns ns

Longitudinal
Questionnaires

Vo [53] 362 - * ns ***
MACS

Diagnostic Interview

Cysique (2007)[57] 227 35 ns ns ns ns ns ns
CHARTER

ns=not significant

*

p<0.05

**

p<0.01

***

p<0.001, p’s<0.08

Cognition: EF=executive function; FLU=Fluency; ATT/WM=attention and working memory; PS=processing speed; LRN/MEM=learning and memory; VS= visuospatial & visuoconstructive functions

studies excluded individuals either meeting criteria for major depression according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

Significant association in younger group only.

B

=baseline assessment

Study Cohorts: CHARTER=CNS HIV Anti-Retroviral Therapy Effects Research cohort, ICONA=Italian Cohort Naïve Antiretrovirals research programme, MACS=Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study; MHBB=Manhattan HIV Brain Bank; WIHS=Women’s Interagency HIV Study