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Independent Predictors (slides) of Carotid Intimal Thickness Differ Between HIV+ and HIV- Patients with Respect to Traditional Cardiac Risk Factors, Risk Calculators, Lipid Subfractions, and Inflammatory Markers (slide presentation)
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Reported by Jules levin
IAS 2013 Kuala Lumpur June 30-July 3
Author(s): R. Hsu1, K. Patton2, J. Liang3, R. Okabe4, J. Aberg5, N. Fineberg2
Institute(s): 1New York University Medical Center, Internal Medicine, New York, United States, 2University of Alabama at Birmingham, Biostatistics, Birmingham, United States, 3New York University, New York, United States, 4New York University, School of Medicine, New York, United States, 5New York University Medical Center, Infectious Diseases, New York, United States
"This was an interesting finding that heart age was an independent new predictor of CIMT at the CCA region so it kind of tells us there is something about our HIV+ patients that even with the same cardiac risk factors their heart or vascular age is actually significantly older than the HIV-neg patient population....... "
Link to webcast:
http://pag.ias2013.org/flash.aspx?pid=240
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