Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Events in Patients Treated for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection
Author(s) -
Samuel A. Bozzette,
Christopher F. Ake,
Henry K. Tam,
Sophia W. Chang,
Thomas A. Louis
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa022048
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , reverse transcriptase inhibitor , mortality rate , protease inhibitor (pharmacology) , retrospective cohort study , reverse transcriptase , viral load , immunology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , antiretroviral therapy , confidence interval , rna , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
Metabolic abnormalities associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, including dysglycemia and hyperlipidemia, are increasingly prevalent, and there is concern about the possibility of an association with accelerated cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease.
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