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ReviewEpigenomics2025

Perspective: clinical relevance of epigenetic aging and HIV.

Isabella C Schoepf, David Haerry, Andrés Esteban-Cantos, José R Arribas, Philip E Tarr, Swiss HIV Cohort Study

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Review in Epigenomics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Epigenetic age acceleration and mortality among persons with poorly controlled HIV.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Isabella C SchoepfUniversity Department of Medicine and Infectious Diseases Service, Kantonsspital Baselland, University of Basel, Bruderholz, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-0882-8016
David HaerryChair Positive Council, Zürich, Switzerland.
Andrés Esteban-CantosHIV/AIDS and Infectious Diseases Research Group, Hospital La Paz Institute for Health Research, Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-6318-6207
José R ArribasHIV/AIDS and Infectious Diseases Research Group, Hospital La Paz Institute for Health Research, Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-7410-9450
Philip E TarrUniversity Department of Medicine and Infectious Diseases Service, Kantonsspital Baselland, University of Basel, Bruderholz, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1488-5407
Swiss HIV Cohort Study

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Longitudinal studies now document how leukocyte telomere attrition and epigenetic aging may be accelerated in people with HIV (PWH), in particular, around the time of HIV acquisition, during primary HIV infection, and during untreated chronic HIV infection. Whether chronic low-level inflammation and epigenetic aging go hand in hand or may be partially independent continues to be investigated in PWH and other settings. Epigenetic age acceleration (EAA) in PWH has now clearly been shown to be potentially reversible during successful antiretroviral therapy (ART). These studies point to how the beneficial effects of modern ART also include EAA-decelerating effects that seem large enough to regard ART as a kind of epigenetic rejuvenation therapy. Progress in the field has been limited in part due to the high cost of assessing EAA based on DNA methylation measures ("epigenetic clocks"). Demonstration of the clinical relevance of EAA and its reversion by ART will depend on large studies associating EAA with cardiovascular events and other adverse aging-associated endpoints in PWH.

Indexed as

AgingEpigenesis, GeneticHIV InfectionsClinical RelevanceDNA MethylationHumansagingantiretroviral therapyepigenetic age accelerationHIVtelomere length

Identifiers

PMID40231671
PMCPMC12140479

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