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Mi Seon Park,1,* Young-Mo Yang,2,* Ju-Sin Kim,1 Eun Joo Choi2 1Department of Pharmacy, Chonbuk National University Hospital, Jeonju, South Korea; 2Department of Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Chosun University, Gwangju, South Korea *These authors contributed equally to this work Background: With the advent of combination antiretroviral therapy (ART), people living with HIV have lived to older age. So they have experienced age-related illnesses and have taken non-antiretroviral (ARV) medications to manage these illnesses. The aims of this study were to investigate the use patterns of ARV agents in HIV-positive patients by age and to evaluate potential or contraindicated drug–drug interactions (DDIs) between ARV and non-ARV. Methods: This study was retrospectively conducted with HIV-infected patients receiving ART medications between October 2011 and September 2017 at Chonbuk National University Hospital in South Korea. Data were collected by reviewing patients’ electronic medical charts. Results: Among 207 patients diagnosed with HIV infection, 183 (86.9% males; 104 aged |
