Multiple Brown University International Health Insitite Professors are coauthors on the recently published study contributing to the understanding of the impact of integrated care to the health care of HIV-positive patients with comorbid hypertension. 

Using a difference-in-differences design, they analyzed retrospective clinical records of 3603 patients with comorbid HIV and hypertension during 2009─2016 to evaluate the addition of chronic disease management (CDM) to an existing HIV care program. Outcomes were blood pressure (BP), hypertension control, and adherence to HIV care.

A chronic disease management program that co-locates concommunicable disease and HIV care shows potential to improve BP and retention in care.

Read the full paper here: Hypertension Control and Retention in Care Among HIV-Infected Patients: The Effects of Co-located HIV and Chronic Noncommunicable Disease Care