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March 5, 2024
CVD Risk Among Certain Groups With HIV Higher Than Previously Thoughtnfection
By IDSE News Staff
The elevated cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk among people with HIV is even higher than predicted by a standard risk calculator in several groups, including Black patients and cisgender women, according to analyses from a large international clinical trial presented at CROI 2024, held in Denver (poster 781).
The risk for having a first major adverse cardiovascular event (MACE) was also higher than previously predicted for people from high-income countries and those whose HIV viral loads were not suppressed below detectable levels.
“Enhanced understanding of the relative contributions of traditional and HIV- specific risk factors (RF) to MACE may guide concomitant preventive interventions at individual and population levels,” the researchers wrote.
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