Risk of Acute Myocardial Infarction Among Hepatitis C Virus (HCV)-Positive and HCV-Negative Men at Various Lipid Levels: Results From ERCHIVES
Author(s) -
Adeel A. Butt,
Yan Peng,
Kara W. Chew,
Judith S. Currier,
Kathleen E. Corey,
Raymond T. Chung,
Ashfaq Shuaib,
AbdulBadi AbouSamra,
Javed Butler,
Matthew S. Freiberg
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1093/cid/cix359
Subject(s) - medicine , hepatitis c virus , hepatitis c , myocardial infarction , cohort , incidence (geometry) , population , gastroenterology , risk factor , cohort study , cholesterol , lipid profile , immunology , virus , physics , environmental health , optics
Risk of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) among hepatitis C virus (HCV)-positive versus HCV-negative persons with similar lipid levels is unknown. We determined incident AMI rates among HCV-positive and HCV-negative men among various lipid strata.
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