HIV infection and the risk of acute myocardial infarction.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Whether people infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are at an increased risk of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) compared with uninfected people is not clear. Without demographically and behaviorally similar uninfected comparators and without uniformly measured clinical data on risk factors and fatal and nonfatal AMI events, any potential association between HIV status and AMI may be confounded.

Objective

To investigate whether HIV is associated with an increased risk of AMI after adjustment for all standard Framingham risk factors among a large cohort of HIV-positive and demographically and behaviorally similar (ie, similar prevalence of smoking, alcohol, and cocaine use) uninfected veterans in care.

Design and setting

Participants in the Vete

SUBMITTER: Freiberg MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4766798 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature