Short-term Increase in Risk of Overweight and Concomitant Systolic Blood Pressure Elevation in Treatment Naïve Persons Starting INSTI-based Antiretroviral Therapy

Abstract

Integrase strand transfer inhibitors-based ART was associated in the short-term with a greater risk of overweight and obesity and SBP elevation. Patients developing overweight and obesity increased low-density lipoprotein cholesterol with no other metabolic disturbances.