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SUBMITTER: Iantorno M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5626458 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Iantorno Micaela M Schär Michael M Soleimanifard Sahar S Brown Todd T TT Moore Richard R Barditch-Crovo Patricia P Stuber Matthias M Lai Shenghan S Gerstenblith Gary G Weiss Robert G RG Hays Allison G AG
AIDS (London, England) 20170601 9
<h4>Objective</h4>HIV-positive (HIV+) individuals experience an increased burden of coronary artery disease (CAD) not adequately accounted for by traditional CAD risk factors. Coronary endothelial function (CEF), a barometer of vascular health, is depressed early in atherosclerosis and predict future events but has not been studied in HIV+ individuals. We tested whether CEF is impaired in HIV+ patients without CAD as compared with an HIV-negative (HIV-) population matched for cardiac risk factor ...[more]