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Psychological Distress is Associated With Decreased Memory Helper T-cell and B-cell Counts in Pre-AIDS HIV Seropositive Men and Women but Only in Those With Low Viral Load

Sarosh J. Motivala, PhD, Barry E. Hurwitz, PhD, Maria M. Llabre, PhD, Nancy G. Klimas, MD, Mary Ann Fletcher, PhD, Michael H. Antoni, PhD, William G. LeBlanc, PhD and Neil Schneiderman, PhD

From the Behavioral Medicine Research Center (B.E.H.) and Department of Medicine (N.G.K., M.A.F.), University of Miami, Miami, Florida; the Department of Psychology (B.E.H., M.M.L., M.H.A., W.G.L., N.S.), University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida; and the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology (S.J.M.), University of California, Los Angeles, California.



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  		Fig. 1. Interaction between distress and viral load for helper T-cell count. Low and high plots represent values 1 standard deviation above or below the mean for both viral load and the distress index. The standardized coefficient for distress at low viral load was ß = -0.28, p < .05.

 


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  		Fig. 2. Interaction between the distress and viral load for the memory helper T-cell subset count. Low and high plots represent values 1 standard deviation above or below the mean for both viral load and the distress index. The standardized coefficient for distress at low viral load was ß = -0.26, p < .05.

 


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  		Fig. 3. Interaction between distress and viral load for B-cell count. Low and high plots represent values 1 standard deviation above or below the mean for both viral load and the distress index. The standardized coefficient for distress at low viral load approached significance (ß = -0.30, p = .06) but was significant at 1.5 standard deviations (ß = -0.42, p < .05).

 




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