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Martin St-Jean

Office of the Chief Medical Health Officer, Vancouver Coastal Health
Verified email at vch.ca
Cited by 187

Excess burden of age-associated comorbidities among people living with HIV in British Columbia, Canada: a population-based cohort study

NGA Nanditha, A Paiero, HM Tafessu, M St-Jean… - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives As people living with HIV (PLWH) live longer, morbidity and mortality from non-AIDS
comorbidities have emerged as major concerns. Our objective was to compare …

SARS-CoV-2 transmission in kindergarten to grade 12 schools in the Vancouver Coastal Health region: a descriptive epidemiologic study

D Bark, N Dhillon, M St-Jean, B Kinniburgh… - … Open Access Journal, 2021 - cmajopen.ca
Background: There is an urgent need to assess the role of schools in the spread of SARS-CoV-2
in Canada to inform public health measures. We describe the epidemiology of SARS-…

[HTML][HTML] Missed opportunities for earlier diagnosis of HIV in British Columbia, Canada: A retrospective cohort study

NGA Nanditha, M St-Jean, H Tafessu, SA Guillemi… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background Late HIV diagnosis is associated with increased AIDS-related morbidity and
mortality as well as an increased risk of HIV transmission. In this study, we quantified and …

Progress towards the United Nations 90‐90‐90 and 95‐95‐95 targets: the experience in British Columbia, Canada

VD Lima, M StJean, I Rozada… - African Journal of …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Introduction: Antiretroviral therapy (ART) scale-up is central to the global strategy to control
the HIV/AIDS pandemic. To accelerate efforts towards ending the AIDS epidemic, the Joint …

[HTML][HTML] Oncolytic virus synergizes with Smac mimetic compounds to induce rhabdomyosarcoma cell death in a syngeneic murine model

…, T Naing, ST Beug, MD Faye, J Chabot, M St-Jean… - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS), a neoplasm characterized by undifferentiated myoblasts, is the
most common soft tissue tumour in children. Therapeutic resistance is common in RMS and …

Overdose mortality is reducing the gains in life expectancy of antiretroviral-treated people living with HIV in British Columbia, Canada

M St-Jean, X Dong, H Tafessu, D Moore… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background A remarkable reduction in AIDS-related mortality has been achieved through the
widespread use of triple combination antiretroviral therapy, considerably increasing the life …

Healthcare utilisation and costs associated with adherence to antipsychotics among people living with HIV/AIDS and schizophrenia: a population-based cohort study …

…, NGA Nanditha, HM Tafessu, H Nathani, M St-Jean… - BMJ open, 2023 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives Non-adherence to antipsychotics is the greatest obstacle to treating schizophrenia.
We assessed the economic and clinical impacts of adherence to antipsychotics among …

The syndemic effect of HIV/HCV co-infection and mental health disorders on acute care hospitalization rate among people living with HIV/AIDS: a population-based …

M St-Jean, H Tafessu, K Closson, TL Patterson… - Canadian Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Objective Our primary objective was to examine the syndemic effect of HIV/HCV co-infection
and mental health disorders (MHD) on the acute care hospitalization rate among people …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of HCV co-infection status on healthcare-related utilization among people living with HIV in British Columbia, Canada: a retrospective cohort study

H Ma, CF Villalobos, M St-Jean, O Eyawo… - BMC Health Services …, 2018 - Springer
Background The burden of HCV among those living with HIV remains a major public health
challenge. We aimed to characterize trends in healthcare-related visits (HRV) of people …

Sexual minority status modifies the association between HIV risk behavior and prevalent mood or anxiety disorders in British Columbia, Canada

M St-Jean, K Closson, T Salway, K Card… - Social Psychiatry and …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose This study aimed at determining to what extent sexual minority status modifies the
association between HIV risk behavior and prevalent mood or anxiety disorder diagnosis in …