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Eric Daar, IDWeek 2021: Metabolic Complications among Treatment-naïve Adults Living with HIV-1

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Published Online: Oct 28th 2021

It was a pleasure to meet with Prof. Eric Daar (Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, West Carson, CA, USA) to discuss his study investigating metabolic complications among treatment-naïve adults living with HIV-1. Part 1 of this interview can be found here.

The abstract entitled: ‘Incidence of metabolic complications among treatment-naïve adults living with HIV-1 randomized to B/F/TAF, DTG/ABC/3TC or DTG+F/TAF after 144 Weeks’ was presented at IDWeek 2021 (Virtual), 28 September – 3 October 2021.

Questions:

  1. What were the aims and methodology of your study investigating metabolic complications among treatment-naïve adults living with HIV-1? (0:18)
  2. What were the findings for each treatment regimen studied? (2:11)
  3. What were the strengths and limitations of this study? (5:16)
  4. What questions remain unanswered and what future studies are planned? (6:54)

Disclosures: Eric Daar is a consultant for Gilead and Merck, and receives research support from Gilead, Merck and ViiV Healthcare.

Support: Interview and filming supported by Touch Medical Media. Interview conducted by Katey Gabrysch.

Filmed as a highlight of IDWeek, Virtual 2021

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