Association of vitamin D insufficiency with carotid intima-media thickness in HIV-infected persons.
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SUBMITTER: Choi AI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3106229 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr
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Association of vitamin D insufficiency with carotid intima-media thickness in HIV-infected persons.
Choi Andy I AI Lo Joan C JC Mulligan Kathleen K Schnell Amanda A Kalapus S Craig SC Li Yongmei Y Hunt Peter W PW Martin Jeffrey N JN Deeks Steven G SG Hsue Priscilla Y PY
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 20110127 7
We observed an independent association between vitamin D insufficiency and higher carotid intima-media thickness in a cross-sectional analysis of 139 HIV-infected persons. If confirmed, these findings support a clinical trial of vitamin D supplementation to reduce cardiovascular events in HIV-infected persons. ...[more]
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