Published in Am J Epidemiol on February 01, 2005
Survival and cessation in injecting drug users: prospective observational study of outcomes and effect of opiate substitution treatment. BMJ (2010) 3.59
Using cohort studies to estimate mortality among injecting drug users that is not attributable to AIDS. Sex Transm Infect (2006) 1.92
Antiretroviral HIV treatment and care for injecting drug users: an evidence-based overview. Int J Drug Policy (2007) 1.75
Long-term outcome of in-patients with substance use disorders: A study from North India. Indian J Psychiatry (2008) 1.52
Years of potential life lost among heroin addicts 33 years after treatment. Prev Med (2007) 1.51
Comparing the dynamic course of heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine use over 10 years. Addict Behav (2008) 1.18
Trajectories of injection drug use over 20 years (1988-2008) in Baltimore, Maryland. Am J Epidemiol (2011) 1.09
Characterizing durations of heroin abstinence in the California Civil Addict Program: results from a 33-year observational cohort study. Am J Epidemiol (2013) 1.05
National record linkage study of mortality for a large cohort of opioid users ascertained by drug treatment or criminal justice sources in England, 2005-2009. Drug Alcohol Depend (2014) 1.02
Is there an association between seeing incidents of alcohol or drug use in films and young Scottish adults' own alcohol or drug use? A cross sectional study. BMC Public Health (2011) 0.92
Developing a vaccine against multiple psychoactive targets: a case study of heroin. CNS Neurol Disord Drug Targets (2011) 0.87
Gender differences among older heroin users. J Women Aging (2009) 0.82
Differences in Mortality among Heroin, Cocaine, and Methamphetamine Users: A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach. J Drug Issues (2010) 0.80
Factors affecting repeated cessations of injecting drug use and relapses during the entire injecting career among the Edinburgh Addiction Cohort. Drug Alcohol Depend (2015) 0.78
Pathways of Substance Users Linking (Or Not) With Treatment. J Drug Issues (2007) 0.78
A follow-up study of heroin addicts (VEdeTTE2): study design and protocol. Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy (2007) 0.75
Predictors of Illicit Drug Use Among Prisoners. Subst Use Misuse (2016) 0.75
Characterizing longitudinal health state transitions among heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine users. Drug Alcohol Depend (2014) 0.75
Problem drug use the public health imperative: what some of the literature says. Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy (2009) 0.75
Cost-Effectiveness of Hepatitis C Treatment for People Who Inject Drugs and the Impact of the Type of Epidemic; Extrapolating from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. PLoS One (2016) 0.75
Methadone treatments in a Swiss region, 2001-2008: a registry-based analysis. BMC Psychiatry (2012) 0.75
Persistent immune activation in HIV-1 infection is associated with progression to AIDS. AIDS (2003) 5.85
Effective therapy has altered the spectrum of cause-specific mortality following HIV seroconversion. AIDS (2006) 3.23
The effects of female sex, viral genotype, and IL28B genotype on spontaneous clearance of acute hepatitis C virus infection. Hepatology (2013) 3.14
Full participation in harm reduction programmes is associated with decreased risk for human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C virus: evidence from the Amsterdam Cohort Studies among drug users. Addiction (2007) 3.08
Increase in HCV incidence among men who have sex with men in Amsterdam most likely caused by sexual transmission. J Infect Dis (2007) 2.90
Non-AIDS-defining deaths and immunodeficiency in the era of combination antiretroviral therapy. AIDS (2009) 2.50
GB virus C coinfection and HIV-1 disease progression: The Amsterdam Cohort Study. J Infect Dis (2005) 2.33
Frequent HCV reinfection and superinfection in a cohort of injecting drug users in Amsterdam. J Hepatol (2009) 2.31
Ongoing HIV-1 transmission among men who have sex with men in Amsterdam: a 25-year prospective cohort study. AIDS (2011) 2.28
A resurgent HIV-1 epidemic among men who have sex with men in the era of potent antiretroviral therapy. AIDS (2008) 2.25
Hepatitis C virus infections among HIV-infected men who have sex with men: an expanding epidemic. AIDS (2009) 2.07
Neighborhood ethnic density and suicide risk among different migrant groups in the four big cities in the Netherlands. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol (2014) 1.98
Spread of hepatitis C virus among European injection drug users infected with HIV: a phylogenetic analysis. J Infect Dis (2004) 1.85
Acute hepatitis C in HIV-infected men who have sex with men: an emerging sexually transmitted infection. AIDS (2010) 1.81
Decline in incidence of HIV and hepatitis C virus infection among injecting drug users in Amsterdam; evidence for harm reduction? Addiction (2013) 1.81
Changes over calendar time in the risk of specific first AIDS-defining events following HIV seroconversion, adjusting for competing risks. Int J Epidemiol (2002) 1.79
Prediction of relapse to frequent heroin use and the role of methadone prescription: an analysis of the Amsterdam Cohort Study among drug users. Drug Alcohol Depend (2005) 1.69
Hepatitis C virus clearance, reinfection, and persistence, with insights from studies of injecting drug users: towards a vaccine. Lancet Infect Dis (2012) 1.66
The hepatitis C epidemic among HIV-positive MSM: incidence estimates from 1990 to 2007. AIDS (2011) 1.65
Unravelling the impact of ethnicity on health in Europe: the HELIUS study. BMC Public Health (2013) 1.59
Cross-sectional comparison of the prevalence of age-associated comorbidities and their risk factors between HIV-infected and uninfected individuals: the AGEhIV cohort study. Clin Infect Dis (2014) 1.59
Low-level CD4+ T cell activation is associated with low susceptibility to HIV-1 infection. J Immunol (2005) 1.56
Selective decrease in circulating V alpha 24+V beta 11+ NKT cells during HIV type 1 infection. J Immunol (2002) 1.52
Major decline of hepatitis C virus incidence rate over two decades in a cohort of drug users. Eur J Epidemiol (2007) 1.52
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibody dynamics following acute HCV infection and reinfection among HIV-infected men who have sex with men. Clin Infect Dis (2014) 1.50
Uptake of combination antiretroviral therapy and HIV disease progression according to geographical origin in seroconverters in Europe, Canada, and Australia. Clin Infect Dis (2011) 1.50
Cohort profile: the international collaboration of incident HIV and hepatitis C in injecting cohorts (InC3) study. Int J Epidemiol (2012) 1.39
Survival and mortality of people infected with HIV in low and middle income countries: results from the extended ALPHA network. AIDS (2007) 1.38
Female sex and IL28B, a synergism for spontaneous viral clearance in hepatitis C virus (HCV) seroconverters from a community-based cohort. PLoS One (2011) 1.38
The impact of transmitted drug resistance on the natural history of HIV infection and response to first-line therapy. AIDS (2006) 1.37
Gender differences in HIV progression to AIDS and death in industrialized countries: slower disease progression following HIV seroconversion in women. Am J Epidemiol (2008) 1.35
Alarming incidence of hepatitis C virus re-infection after treatment of sexually acquired acute hepatitis C virus infection in HIV-infected MSM. AIDS (2011) 1.31
Lymphogranuloma venereum proctitis in men who have sex with men is associated with anal enema use and high-risk behavior. Sex Transm Dis (2008) 1.26
High prevalence of sexually transmitted infections in HIV-infected men during routine outpatient visits in the Netherlands. Sex Transm Dis (2012) 1.25
Emergence of hepatitis C virus genotype 4: phylogenetic analysis reveals three distinct epidemiological profiles. J Clin Microbiol (2009) 1.24
Recommendations for the management of hepatitis C virus infection among people who inject drugs. Clin Infect Dis (2013) 1.23
Risk of hepatitis-related mortality increased among hepatitis C virus/HIV-coinfected drug users compared with drug users infected only with hepatitis C virus: a 20-year prospective study. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2008) 1.20
Injection drug use and hepatitis C virus infection in young adult injectors: using evidence to inform comprehensive prevention. Clin Infect Dis (2013) 1.19
Decline in HIV incidence and injecting, but not in sexual risk behaviour, seen in drug users in Amsterdam: a 19-year prospective cohort study. AIDS (2006) 1.18
The Utrecht Health Project: optimization of routine healthcare data for research. Eur J Epidemiol (2005) 1.17
Prevalence of transmitted HIV-1 drug resistance and the role of resistance algorithms: data from seroconverters in the CASCADE collaboration from 1987 to 2003. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2005) 1.14
Changes in risk behavior and dynamics of hepatitis C virus infections among young drug users in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. J Med Virol (2005) 1.14
HIV incidence and HIV testing behavior in men who have sex with men: using three incidence sources, The Netherlands, 1984-2005. AIDS (2007) 1.13
HIV-1-related Hodgkin lymphoma in the era of combination antiretroviral therapy: incidence and evolution of CD4⁺ T-cell lymphocytes. Blood (2011) 1.13
Effect of HCV infection on cause-specific mortality after HIV seroconversion, before and after 1997. Gastroenterology (2012) 1.13
Pre-seroconversion immune status predicts the rate of CD4 T cell decline following HIV infection. AIDS (2004) 1.11
Correlates of resistance to HIV-1 infection in homosexual men with high-risk sexual behaviour. AIDS (2004) 1.10
The HIV RNA setpoint theory revisited. Retrovirology (2007) 1.06
Natural history of HIV-control since seroconversion. AIDS (2013) 1.02
Transient lowering of the viral set point after temporary antiretroviral therapy of primary HIV type 1 infection. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses (2010) 1.02
Colonial history and contemporary transmission shape the genetic diversity of hepatitis C virus genotype 2 in Amsterdam. J Virol (2012) 1.02
HIV and sexual risk behavior among commercial sex workers in the Netherlands. Arch Sex Behav (2008) 1.00
Hepatitis C testing and treatment among active drug users in Amsterdam: results from the DUTCH-C project. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol (2011) 1.00
Declining trend in transmission of drug-resistant HIV-1 in Amsterdam. AIDS (2004) 1.00
Evolution of transmitted HIV-1 with drug-resistance mutations in the absence of therapy: effects on CD4+ T-cell count and HIV-1 RNA load. Antivir Ther (2006) 0.99
Short-term CD4 cell response after highly active antiretroviral therapy initiated at different times from seroconversion in 1,500 seroconverters. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2003) 0.99
The impact of pregnancy and menopause on CD4 lymphocyte counts in HIV-infected women. AIDS (2002) 0.98
Limited effect of highly active antiretroviral therapy among HIV-positive injecting drug users on the population level. Eur J Public Health (2003) 0.98
Multivariate normative comparison, a novel method for more reliably detecting cognitive impairment in HIV infection. AIDS (2015) 0.96
Recreational drug use during sex and sexually transmitted infections among clients of a city sexually transmitted infections clinic in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Sex Transm Dis (2012) 0.96
Declining AIDS mortality in Amsterdam: contributions of declining HIV incidence and effective therapy. Epidemiology (2004) 0.96
HIV infection is independently associated with frailty in middle-aged HIV type 1-infected individuals compared with similar but uninfected controls. AIDS (2016) 0.95
Transitions in drug use in a new generation of problem drug users in Amsterdam: a 6-year follow-up study. Eur Addict Res (2009) 0.94
Treatment of acute hepatitis C virus infection in HIV-infected MSM: the effect of treatment duration. AIDS (2011) 0.94
Can migrants from high-endemic countries cause new HIV outbreaks among heterosexuals in low-endemic countries? AIDS (2010) 0.93
Early viral load and CD4+ T cell count, but not percentage of CCR5+ or CXCR4+ CD4+ T cells, are associated with R5-to-X4 HIV type 1 virus evolution. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses (2003) 0.93
Stressors and resources mediate the association of socioeconomic position with health behaviours. BMC Public Health (2011) 0.93
Primary HIV-1 subtype C infection in Ethiopia. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2002) 0.92
Low incidence of HIV-1 superinfection even after episodes of unsafe sexual behavior of homosexual men in the Amsterdam Cohort Studies on HIV Infection and AIDS. J Infect Dis (2011) 0.92
HIV outbreak among injecting drug users in the Helsinki region: social and geographical pockets. Eur J Public Health (2006) 0.91
Candidate hepatitis C vaccine trials and people who inject drugs: challenges and opportunities. Vaccine (2010) 0.91
Increasing sexual risk behaviour among Dutch men who have sex with men: mathematical models versus prospective cohort data. AIDS (2012) 0.91
Drug users and HIV-combination therapy (HAART): factors which impede or facilitate adherence. Subst Use Misuse (2002) 0.91
High plasma HIV load in the CRF01-AE outbreak among injecting drug users in Finland. Scand J Infect Dis (2005) 0.90
Stabilizing incidence of hepatitis C virus infection among men who have sex with men in Amsterdam. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2014) 0.90
Do HIV disease progression and HAART response vary among injecting drug users in Europe? Eur J Epidemiol (2005) 0.90
Effect of nutritional counselling and nutritional plus exercise counselling in overweight adults: a randomized trial in multidisciplinary primary care practice. Fam Pract (2009) 0.90
Trends in hepatitis C virus infections among MSM attending a sexually transmitted infection clinic; 1995-2010. AIDS (2014) 0.90
Low incidence of reinfection with the hepatitis C virus following treatment in active drug users in Amsterdam. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol (2012) 0.90
HIV transmission patterns among The Netherlands, Suriname, and The Netherlands Antilles: a molecular epidemiological study. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses (2010) 0.89
Causal pathways of the effects of age and the CCR5-Delta32, CCR2-64I, and SDF-1 3'A alleles on AIDS development. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2005) 0.88
Is adding HCV screening to the antenatal national screening program in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, cost-effective? PLoS One (2013) 0.88
Absence of HIV-1 superinfection 1 year after infection between 1985 and 1997 coincides with a reduction in sexual risk behavior in the seroincident Amsterdam cohort of homosexual men. Clin Infect Dis (2010) 0.86
Using mass media and the Internet as tools to diagnose hepatitis C infections in the general population. Am J Prev Med (2011) 0.86
Seroprevalence and determinants of eight high-risk human papillomavirus types in homosexual men, heterosexual men, and women: a population-based study in Amsterdam. Sex Transm Dis (2010) 0.86
Unexpectedly high proportion of drug users and men having sex with men who develop chronic hepatitis B infection. J Hepatol (2012) 0.86
Hepatitis C in the general population of various ethnic origins living in the Netherlands: should non-Western migrants be screened? J Hepatol (2011) 0.86
Screening for hepatitis B and C in first-generation Egyptian migrants living in the Netherlands. Liver Int (2013) 0.85
People with multiple tattoos and/or piercings are not at increased risk for HBV or HCV in The Netherlands. PLoS One (2011) 0.85
Amount of self-reported illicit drug use compared to quantitative hair test results in community-recruited young drug users in Amsterdam. Addiction (2003) 0.85
Low prevalence of asymptomatic sexually transmitted infections in HIV-infected heterosexuals visiting an HIV clinic in the Netherlands. AIDS (2012) 0.85