Human immunodeficiency virus infection and cardiovascular risk

Methods A retrospective cross-sectional study was performed on a group of 50 HIV patients at the I Clinic of Infectious Diseases Tg Mures (33 male, average age: 27.1±7; average duration of antiretroviral treatment: 11.16±6.88 years; average TCD4+ lymphocyte (LTCD4+) count on last evaluation: 593.98±392.55 cells/μL; 38 in AIDS stage). From the moment of diagnosis until July 2014, several classic CVRF have been studied: age, sex, smoking, obesity, dyslipidemia, diabetes, hypertension and global cardiovascular risk (CVR) estimated with Framingham score. The results were correlated with: antiretroviral treatment (ART), the number of ART combinations, LTCD4+ and hepatitis B (HBV) coinfection. For statistical analysis the Student and Mann-Whitney tests were used with 95% confidence interval and statistical significance p<0.05.