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SUBMITTER: Ashare RL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6457129 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ashare Rebecca L RL Thompson Morgan M Leone Frank F Metzger David D Gross Robert R Mounzer Karam K Tyndale Rachel F RF Lerman Caryn C Mahoney Martin C MC Cinciripini Paul P George Tony P TP Collman Ronald G RG Schnoll Robert R
AIDS (London, England) 20190501 6
<h4>Objective</h4>HIV-infected smokers lose more life years to tobacco use than to HIV infection. The nicotine metabolite ratio (NMR), a biomarker of CYP2A6, represents individual variation in the rate at which nicotine is metabolized and is associated with response to smoking cessation treatments. We evaluated whether HIV-infected smokers metabolize nicotine faster than HIV-uninfected smokers, which may contribute to the disproportionate smoking burden and may have important treatment implicati ...[more]