A Comparative Analysis of Cardiovascular Risk in HIV Sero-positive and Sero-negative Pre-menopausal Women

A Comparative Analysis of Cardiovascular Risk in HIV Sero-positive and Sero-negative Pre-menopausal Women

Sero-prevalence of Herpes Simplex and Epstein Barr Viruses in HIV positive patients in Tehran

Abstract Background and Aims: The burden of HIV infection and disease continues to be a major global public health concern all over the world. This study was conducted to measure IgG antibody against EBV viral capsid antigen (EBV-VCA IgG), Herpes Simplex Type1, and 2 to determine the seroprevalence of this infection in HIV-positive population. Materials and Methods: A Cross-sectional st...

Comparison of in-hospital mortality from acute myocardial infarction in HIV sero-positive versus sero-negative individuals.

Few studies have explored hospitalization outcome differences between patients who are seropositive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) compared to HIV-seronegative patients with acute myocardial infarctions (AMIs). The aim of this study was to explore in-hospital AMI mortality risk in seropositive and seronegative patients. A secondary analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample from 1997 t...

Dyadic adjustment in HIV sero-concordant and sero-discordant couples.

AIM The HIV infected population in Romania is at an age when engaging in a serious relationship is more and more an issue. Dyadic adjustment is the process which most couples go through, in their attempt to form a steady relationship. It is represented by important changes that appear in one's perception of himself and the significant other. Dyadic adjustment can be measured by a series of para...

Rheumatoid arthritis (R.A.) factor in near relatives of sero-positive and sero-negative patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

In a previous publication (de Blcourt, Polman, and de Blcourt-Meindersma, 1961), we drew attention to the familial occurrence of rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis, each of which shows a special hereditary factor, but we did not report on the presence or absence of the so-called rheumatic factor in probands and members of the family. The "epidemiology" of various rheumatic conditio...