HIV Infection and the Risk of Acute Myocardial Infarction
Freiberg MS, Chang CC, Kuller LH, Skanderson M, Lowy E, Kraemer KL, Butt AA, Goetz M, Leaf D, Oursler KA, Rimland D, Barradas M, Brown S, Gibert C, McGinnis K, Crothers K, Sico J, Crane H, Warner A, Gottlieb S, Gottdiener J, Tracy RP, Budoff M, Watson C, Armah KA, Doebler D, Bryant K, Justice AC. HIV Infection and the Risk of Acute Myocardial Infarction. JAMA Internal Medicine 2013, 173: 614-622. PMID: 23459863, PMCID: PMC4766798, DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.3728.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHuman immunodeficiency virusAcute myocardial infarctionRisk of AMIFramingham risk factorsUninfected veteransRisk factorsMyocardial infarctionAMI eventsHIV statusVeterans Aging Cohort Study Virtual CohortHIV-1 RNA levelsStandard Framingham risk factorsIncident acute myocardial infarctionIncidence of AMISubstance useBaseline cardiovascular diseaseCD4 cell countHepatitis C infectionBody mass indexHIV-1 RNACopies/mLHIV-positive veteransTime-updated analysisDecade of ageRace/ethnicity