HIV Infection and Cardiovascular Disease
HIV Infection and Cardiovascular Disease
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10.1155/2013/252463
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2013-12-30
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通讯作者:
Vitoria M
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作者:
Fuchs SC;Beltrami-Moreira M;Oyeledun B;Sow PS;Vitoria M
HIV infection has been considered as one of the major global public health threats of the last century, increasing several times the mortality rate in comparison to the cholera epidemic that swept London in the nineteenth century. Unlike the contamination caused by cholera bacillus, prevention of HIV infection requires other interventions than basic sanitation, and the antiretroviral agents currently remain the touchstone to transform the disease from subacute into a chronic condition. The introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in the treatment of HIV-infected patients, in 1990s, has allowed better health status and greater longevity among people living with HIV, associated with a reduction in the viral transmission rate. For a while, it has been believed that universal access to HAART and the progressive increase in the efficiency of the prevention methods could save future generations [1]. However, it requires an enormous effort to expand HIV testing, maintenance of sustained treatment, and implementation of prevention programs. Nevertheless, HAART is not free of adverse effects. With the significant reduction of the mortality and morbidity associated with HIV induced immunodeficiency in patients using HAART, the HIV infection is behaving as a long-term sickness [2]. HIV infection and its treatment have been associated with abnormal metabolic profile [3]; increased prevalence of noncommunicable diseases [4, 5] and mortality rate of AIDS-related have shifted to non-AIDS-related conditions [6, 7]. In the pre-HAART era, mortality from cardiovascular disease in infected persons occurred almost two decades earlier than in the general population. After the introduction of HAART, this difference went on to about nine years [8]. Even though the HIV-infected population is getting older, most still ar less than 50 years old and, in the United States, only half of the population will be 50 years in 2015 [9]. Therefore, the long-term management of patients with HIV infection has to be expanded to diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cardiovascular risk factors and coronary heart disease. Even so, most current guidelines for the treatment of HIV infection are still focused only on antiretroviral treatment and do not take into account the treatment and prevention of comorbidities not related to AIDS [10–12]. However, bringing the paradigm of cardiovascular disease prevention for the scenario of HIV infection requires detection of the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and coronary heart disease in HIV-infected patients. In this edition of this journal, a portrait of the Brazilian scenario of cardiovascular disease among HIV-infected patients was presented. Brazil is a country that has provided free access to HIV treatment for the entire population of infected people in the last two decades, and the use of HAART had a great impact on the costs of health care and
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