Global Burden of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in People Living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Conclusions -People living with HIV are twice as likely to develop cardiovascular disease. The global burden of HIV associated cardiovascular disease has tripled over the last two decades and is now responsible for 2.6 million DALYs per annum with the greatest impact in sub-Saharan Africa and the Asia-Pacific regions. PROSPERO Registration -URL: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero Unique Identifier: CRD42016048257.
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Source: Circulation - July 2, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Shah ASV, Stelzle D, Lee KK, Beck EJ, Alam S, Clifford S, Longenecker CT, Strachan FE, Bagchi S, Whiteley W, Rajagopalan S, Kottilil S, Nair H, Newby DE, McAllister DA, Mills NL Tags: Circulation Source Type: research