Heart Disease

HIV Infection May Increase Risk

Published in AIDS Weekly, January 7th, 2002

by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - HIV patients may have a heightened risk of some forms of heart disease, researchers in the United States warn.

Max H. David and colleagues at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and St. Johns Mercy Medical Center at St. Louis University investigated the incidence of ischemic cardiovascular disease (CVD) in HIV patients.

Although most cases of heart disease in these patients were probably caused by factors other than HIV infection, low immune cell counts may have added to their CVD risk, the researchers said.

They performed a retrospective analysis of data from 16 HIV patients,...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2002-01-07)

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