Infection duration and inflammatory imbalance are associated with atherosclerotic risk in HIV-infected never-smokers independent of antiretroviral therapy

Moı̈se Desvarieux, Franck Boccara, Jean-Luc Meynard, J.P. Bastard, Ziad Mallat, Bény Charbit, Ryan T. Demmer, Nabila Haddour, Soraya Fellahi, Alain Tedgui,

AIDS · 2013 · 35 citations · 33 references

Abstract

Known HIV duration is related to thicker c-IMT, irrespective of ART, in these carefully selected age-matched never-smoking HIV-treated and ART-naive male individuals. Higher levels of anti-inflammatory markers appeared protective for atherosclerosis.

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