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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr HIV/AIDS Rep. 2021 Apr 5;18(3):157–175. doi: 10.1007/s11904-021-00554-1

Table 1.

Proposed and/or Tested Interventions to Prevent or Treat Frailty in Populations with or without HIV

Non-Pharmacologic Interventions Pharmacologic Interventions
Unstructured physical activity and exercise
  • Endurance training

  • Strength training

  • Higher intensity or high-intensity interval training

mTOR pathway
  • Rapamycin

Nutritional
  • Supplements

  • Protein

  • Obesity management

Sirtuin/NAD pathway
  • Nicotinamide

  • Resveratrol

Polypharmacy
  • De-escalation

  • Non-pharmacologic interventions when possible

Insulin-signaling/metabolic regulators
  • Metformin

  • Acarbose

  • 17α-Estradiol

  • Fibroblast growth factor 21

Reduce fall risk
  • Balance training

  • Physical therapy

  • Medical de-escalation

Senolytics
  • Dasatinib

  • Quercetin

  • Navitoclax

Evaluate/treat mood disorders and cognitive impairment Testosterone
Multimodal approaches
  • Combination of above interventions

  • Geriatric consultative clinics

  • Comprehensive geriatric assessment

Other therapies
  • Antiretroviral therapy (for populations with HIV)

  • Alfacalcidol

  • Capromorelin

  • Piroxicam

  • Teriparatide

  • Tesamorelin

Address social determinants of health that underlie risk of frailty and access to treatment and care for frailty-associated aging-related conditions
  • Economic opportunity (e.g. income, employment, housing, food security)

  • Educational opportunity

  • Social and community factors (e.g. addressing precipitants of racial/ethnic disparities)

  • Neighborhood and built environment

  • Access to health/health care (e.g. health promotion, disease prevention and care)

mTOR, mechanistic target of rapamycin; NAD, Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD)