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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Art exposure"”.
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The influence of HIV and ART exposure on neonate brain volumes
… a need to better understand the outcome of HIV/ART exposure on the fetal/infant/child brain. This study aimed to investigate the effect(s) of HIV and duration of ART exposure and the potential impact of additional maternal health factors during pregnancy on neonate brain volumes. Methods: Using …
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Art and Memory: An Examination of the Learning Benefits of Visual-Art Exposure
<p>Past research has indicated that art education can be beneficial to students' education, possibly through beneficial effects related to learning and memory. Although some prior research has explored effects of art education for children, relatively little research has investigated beneficial …
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The influence of maternal HIV and ART exposure on neonate brain white matter integrity and organisation
… to a new cohort of children who have in utero exposure to maternal HIV, but remain HIV negative through the use of antiretroviral therapy (ART), known as HIV exposed-uninfected (HEU) children. While HEU infants and children are healthier than their infected peers, they experience some …
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Characteristics of decidual macrophages and Hofbauer cells in placentas of HIV positive women on antiretroviral therapy
… women on combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) are not well characterized. In this Ph.D. dissertation, the impact of HIV-1 infection and the duration of ART exposure on the phenotype and function of decidual macrophages and HCs was studied. Birth outcomes and placenta pathologies of …
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Regional neurometabolite trajectories and how they relate to neurocognitive
… optimal brain health and function are built, exposure to maternal HIV and/or antiretroviral therapy (ART) during in utero and/or early postnatal development may adversely affect functional brain development and subsequent neurological functioning, in children who are exposed to HIV and/or ART …
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The impact of maternal HIV infection on uninfected neonate brain structure
… effects of HIV and antiretroviral therapy (ART) exposure on the developing brain is not well understood. While HEU children perform better than their counterparts living with HIV, they continue to demonstrate greater neurodevelopmental delay than HIV-unexposed uninfected (HUU) children. As a …
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A metabolomics investigation of in utero antiretroviral exposure to neonates
… investigation of in utero antiretroviral exposure to neonates", deals with the concern over adverse metabolic consequences reported for some neonates prenatally exposed to antiretroviral treatment (HIV-ART). The pandemic due to HIV infection, the cause of AIDS, has become globally the most …
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Maternal body mass index and proinflammatory immune markers in HIV-infected pregnant woman on antiretroviral treatment in Cape Town, South Africa
… index (BMI) and the timing of antiretroviral (ART) initiation in pregnant women living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (WLWH) may affect the controlled systemic inflammation during pregnancy. Proinflammatory immune markers during pregnancy and the impact of maternal BMI in WLWH …
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Antiretroviral therapy and pregnancy outcome in HIV-infected women in the United Kingdom and Ireland
… women receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the UK (United Kingdom) and Ireland. Population-based surveillance data on HIV-infected pregnant women and their children is collected through the National Study of HIV in Pregnancy and Childhood (NSHPC), which includes information on over …
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Retrospective review of urinary lipoarabinomannan (ULAM) in the diagnosis of disseminated tuberculosis (TB) in medical inpatients at a district level hospital in Cape Town
… load (VL), whether Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) naïve or interrupted and duration of ART if on treatment. Additionally, MTB diagnostic tests were performed and finally, patient clinical outcomes with regards to length of stay (LOS) and 30-day mortality and whether TB treatment was initiated. …
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Metabolic complications resulting from the use of antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients
While antiretroviral therapy (ART) has extended the life expectancy of those infected with HIV, it is also associated with a number of metabolic complications, such as dysglycaemia, insulin resistance and lipodystrophy. Lipodystrophy is characterised by an increase in trunk fat (lipohypertrophy) …
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Co-morbid cardiometabolic diseases among people living with HIV/AIDS in Cameroon
… of hypertension, T2D, and obesity among ART-naïve PLWH; and to evaluate the methodological approaches to mediation analysis and handling missing data in studies on CMDs in PLWH. Methods: The study utilized data from 14,279 PLWH enrolled in the Cameroon arm of the International …
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Influence of maternal human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and antiretroviral (ARV) drugs on neonate neurometabolism.
… and breastfeeding. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) prevents vertical transmission of HIV by providing prophylaxis to the fetus or infant and lowering the mother's viral load (VL). Due to the prevention of vertical HIV transmission, there is a decrease in infants acquiring HIV vertically. …
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Effects of HIV and different anti-retroviral therapy (ART) regimes on brain structure in HIV infected children at age 7
… early aggressive antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation to manage HIV in children, based on studies that reported this protocol as effective in reducing mortality and HIV progression. Early ART initiation in HIV-infected children generated new concern about the long-term effects on …
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Role of antiretroviral therapy exposure host genetics on cytomegalovirus infection status and association with gut microbiome profiles among pregnant black African women
… assay. A high prevalence of previous exposure to CMV, as denoted by the presence of anti-CMV IgG antibodies in participants' sera, was observed. Anti-CMV IgM antibodies that denote active CMV infection were detected in the sera of 4.6% (n=35/524) study participants. Prevalence of CMV …