Category Archives: Co-morbidities

Evaluation of health disparity in bacterial vaginosis and the implications for HIV-1 acquisition in African American women

2016

There is a health disparity for both bacterial vaginosis (BV) and human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection in African American women that may be linked. The evidence that BV...

Reversing gut damage in HIV infection: Using non-human primate models to instruct clinical research

2016

Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has led to dramatic improvements in the lives of HIV-infected persons. However, residual immune activation, which persists despite ART, is associated with increased risk of non-AIDS morbidities....

Comparative safety and efficacy of statins for primary prevention in human immunodeficiency virus-positive patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis

2016

The efficacy and safety of different statins for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients in the primary prevention setting remain to be established. In the present meta-analysis, 18 studies with 736...

Cerebral aneurysms associated with human immunodeficiency virus in adults: Literature review and new perspectives

2016

INTRODUCTION: the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has been decreasing patient morbidity and mortality by opportunistic infections and, thus, survival has increased. This new reality has been changing...

A meta-analysis of the metabolic syndrome prevalence in the global HIV-infected population

2016

BACKGROUND: Cardio-metabolic risk factors are of increasing concern in HIV-infected individuals, particularly with the advent of antiretroviral therapy (ART) and the subsequent rise in longevity. However, the prevalence of cardio-metabolic...

Safety and diagnostic value of brain biopsy in HIV patients: a case series and meta-analysis of 1209 patients

2016

Early brain biopsy may be indicated in HIV patients with focal brain lesion. This study aimed to evaluate and compare the safety and diagnostic value of brain biopsy in HIV...

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in individuals with HIV: A systematic review and meta-analysis

2016

INTRODUCTION: Abnormal diurnal blood pressure (BP) rhythms may contribute to the high cardiovascular disease risk in HIV-positive (HIV+) individuals. To synthesize the current literature on ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM) in...

Mapping the epidemiology of Kaposi Sarcoma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma among children in Sub-Saharan Africa: A review

2016

Children with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have an increased risk of developing Kaposi Sarcoma (KS) and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) compared to HIV-negative children. We compiled currently published epidemiologic data on...

Pro-inflammatory markers in relation to cardiovascular disease in HIV infection. A systematic review

2016

BACKGROUND: In the past years many inflammatory markers have been studied in association with clinically manifest cardiovascular disease (CVD) and carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) in HIV-infected patients, to obtain insights...

Diagnosing acute and prevalent HIV-1 infection in young African adults seeking care for fever: A systematic review and audit of current practice

2014

Fever is a common complaint in HIV-1 infected adults and may be a presenting sign of acute HIV-1 infection (AHI). We investigated the extent to which HIV-1 infection was considered...

The interaction between sickle cell disease and HIV infection: A systematic review

2015

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and sickle cell disease (SCD) are regarded as endemic in overlapping geographic areas; however, for most countries only scarce data on the interaction between HIV and...

Hearing loss in people with HIV/AIDS and associated factors: An integrative review

2013

The current scientific literature reports on the incidence of hearing impairments due to HIV/AIDS, and the hearing changes can occur due to damage to the outer, middle or inner ear....

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