HIV Provider–Patient Communication Regarding Cardiovascular Risk
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Diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular risk, and HIV disease.
Metabolic abnormalities, including dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, diabetes, and increased inflammatory indexes, have been increasingly observed among HIV-infected patients in the current era of highly active antiretroviral therapy.1,2 The causes of these abnormalities are complex and multifactorial, likely related in part to the effects of HIV, itself a chronic inflammatory condition; medica...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care (JIAPAC)
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2325-9582,2325-9582
DOI: 10.1177/2325957414530473