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9-YEAR TRENDS IN NON-LIPID CARDIOVASCULAR
DISEASE PREVENTION STRATEGIES IN HIV+ WOMEN......in WIHS-women have poor control of diabetes & hypertension
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"Use of hypertensive and diabetes medications increased
among both HIV+ and HIV- women but coincided with only
small or no improvements in risk factor control"
"HIV+ women more effectively manage hypertension and
diabetes than HIV- women from the same risk population
- However, more than 40% of hypertensive and 25% of diabetic
HIV+ women still did not achieve target control levels"
Reported by Jules Levin
CROI 2016 Feb 22-24 Boston
David B. Hanna1, Molly Jung1, Kathryn Anastos1, Jennifer M. Cocohoba2, Mardge H. Cohen3, Elizabeth T. Golub4, Nancy A. Hessol2, Tracey E. Wilson5, Mary Young6, Robert C. Kaplan1
1Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA, 2University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA, 3John H. Stroger Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA,
4Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA, 5SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA, 6Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA
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