Patterns of cardiovascular disease in a group of HIV-infected adults in Yaoundé, Cameroon.

Abstract

Cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension and dyslipidemia are common in HIV-infected adults with heart disease in our milieu. Advanced HIV infection in adults is associated with a high rate of symptomatic heart disease, mostly effusive pericarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy. Primary PH occurred in less advanced HIV disease.