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HIV patients have nearly twice the heart attack risk


HIV patients have nearly twice the heart attack risk
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Myocardial Infarction or Heart Attack.Credit: Blausen Medical Communications/Wikipedia/CC-A 3.0 Current methods to predict the risk of heart attack and stroke vastly underestimate the risk in individuals with HIV, which is nearly double that of the general population, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study."The actual risk of heart attack for people with HIV was roughly 50 percent higher than predicted by the risk calculator many physicians use for the general population," said first author Dr. Matthew Feinstein, a cardiovascular disease fellow at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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HIV patients have nearly twice the heart attack risk: Risk for heart attack, stroke is vastly underestimated in HIV patients -- ScienceDaily


HIV patients have nearly twice the heart attack risk: Risk for heart attack, stroke is vastly underestimated in HIV patients -- ScienceDaily
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Current methods to predict the risk of heart attack and stroke vastly underestimate the risk in individuals with HIV, which is nearly double that of the general population, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study."The actual risk of heart attack for people with HIV was roughly 50 percent higher than predicted by the risk calculator many physicians use for the general population," said first author Dr. Matthew Feinstein, a cardiovascular disease fellow at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.The study was published Dec. 21 in JAMA Cardiology.
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HIV patients at higher heart attack risk


HIV patients at higher heart attack risk
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HIV patients at higher heart attack risk: studyWashington, Dec 22, 2016, (PTI)HIV patients have nearly twice the heart attack risk than the general population, warns a new study which found that current prediction methods vastly underestimate the risk of cardiovascular diseases in people with the deadly virus.The higher risk for heart attack - about 1.5 to two times greater - exists even in people whose virus is undetectable in their blood because of antiretroviral drugs, researchers said."The actual risk of heart attack for people with HIV was roughly 50 per cent higher than predicted by the risk calculator many physicians use for the general population," said Matthew Feinstein from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in the US.
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