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HIV/AIDS: cardiovascular diseases

Asia-Pacific

• BMC Public Health
  • Prevalence and risk factors of cardiovascular disease among people living with HIV in the Asia-Pacific region: a systematic review [2023]

Australia

• Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine
  • Heart disease in HIV infection
  • Cardiovascular disease and associated risk factors
  • Atherosclerotic vascular disease in people with HIV infection

Burundi

• Scientific Reports
  • Hypertension and associated factors in HIV-infected patients receiving antiretroviral treatment in Burundi: a cross-sectional study [2022]

Canada

• HIV Medicine
  • Baseline characteristics of a prospective cohort study of aging and cardiovascular diseases among people living with HIV [2023]

• Radiology
  • Prevalence and Characterization of Subclinical Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaque with CT among Individuals with HIV: Results from the Canadian HIV and Aging Cohort Study [2021]

Canada, United States

• IeDEA
  • Statins Utilization in Adults With HIV: The Treatment Gap and Predictors of Statin Initiation [2022]

Colombia

• Revista de Investigación Clínica
  • Cardiovascular Risk Prediction Models in People Living with HIV in Colombia [2022]

Croatia, Serbia

• Journal of the International AIDS Society
  • Prevalence and concordance of high cardiovascular disease scores in HIV/AIDS patients from Croatia and Serbia with four international algorithms [2014]

Ethiopia

• PLoS ONE
  • Dyslipidemia among adult HIV patients on antiretroviral therapy and its association with age and body mass index in Ethiopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]

Europe

• European AIDS Clinical Society
  • European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) Interim Guidance on the Use of Statin Therapy for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in People with HIV [2024]

International

• BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
  • Optimizing statin therapy in HIV-infected patients: a review of pharmacotherapy considerations [2025]
  • Characterization and stratification of risk factors of stroke in people living with HIV: A theory-informed systematic review [2025]

• BMC Medical Research Methodology
  • Reporting and handling of missing data in published studies of co-morbid hypertension and diabetes among people living with HIV/AIDS: a systematic review [2025]

• BMC Public Health
  • Burden of metabolic syndrome in the global adult HIV-infected population: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]

• Circulation Research
  • HIV-Associated Hypertension: Risks, Mechanisms, and Knowledge Gaps [2024]
  • HIV-Associated Cardiovascular Disease Pathogenesis: An Emerging Understanding Through Imaging and Immunology [2024]
  • Cardiovascular Dynamics in HIV: The Influence of Adrenal Function and Nutritional Status [2024]
  • Cardiac and Renal Comorbidities in Aging People Living With HIV [2024]

• Croatian Medical Journal
  • Comparison of four international cardiovascular disease prediction models and the prevalence of eligibility for lipid lowering therapy in HIV infected patients on antiretroviral therapy [2015]

• Hellenic Journal of Cardiology
  • Cardiovascular disease and risk assessment in people living with HIV: Current practices and novel perspectives [2023]

• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on the Impact of Statin Treatment in HIV Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy [2023]

• JAMA
  • Association of HIV Infection With Cardiovascular Pathology Based on Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging: A Systematic Review [2022]

• Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • Cardiometabolic health in people with HIV: expert consensus review [2024]

• Journal of Global Health
  • Higher cardiovascular disease risks in people living with HIV: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]

• PLoS ONE
  • A Meta-Analysis of the Metabolic Syndrome Prevalence in the Global HIV-Infected Population [2016]

• Thrombosis Research
  • Endothelial dysfunction, a predictor of cardiovascular disease in HIV patients on antiretroviral therapy: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]

• Topics in Antiviral Medicine
  • CROI 2024: Metabolic and Other Complications of HIV Infection [2024]

• Viruses
  • The Association Between HIV Infection and Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in the Era of Antiretroviral Therapy: A Meta-Analysis [2025]

Italy

• New Microbiologica
  • Use of statins and aspirin to prevent cardiovascular disease among HIV-positive patients. A survey among Italian HIV physicians [2017]

Low and middle income countries

• JACC: Heart Failure
  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Heart Failure in Low- and Middle-Income Countries [2015]

• PLoS ONE
  • Feasibility of integrated, multilevel care for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and HIV in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs): A scoping review [2019]

Namibia

• PLoS ONE
  • Integrating hypertension and HIV care in Namibia: A quality improvement collaborative approach [2022]

Nigeria

• Nigerian Postgraduate Medical Journal
  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus-associated Heart Disease in Nigerian Children: A Persistent and Difficult Clinical Challenge [2025]

Republic of Korea

• Yonsei Medical Journal
  • Hypertension Risk with Abacavir Use among HIV-Infected Individuals: A Nationwide Cohort Study [2018]

Senegal

• PLoS ONE
  • Increasing prevalence of hypertension among HIV-positive and negative adults in Senegal, West Africa, 1994-2015 [2018]

South Africa

• BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Prevalence of obesity, hypertension and diabetes among people living with HIV in South Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2023]

• BMC Public Health
  • Prevalence and factors associated with hypertension among older people living with HIV in South Africa [2022]
  • Trends, prevalence and factors associated with hypertension and diabetes among South African adults living with HIV, 2005–2017 [2021]

• International Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Association between HIV and Prevalent Hypertension and Diabetes Mellitus in South Africa: Analysis of a Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Survey [2022]

• South African Family Practice
  • Factors influencing treatment adherence in hypertension and HIV management in South Africa: A comparative literature review [2022]

Spain

• Journal of Clinical Medicine
  • National Temporal Trend Analysis of Infective Endocarditis among Patients Infected with HIV in Spain (1997–2014): A Retrospective Study [2019]

• Revista Española de Cardiología (English Edition)
  • HIV and Heart Disease: What Cardiologists Should Know [2016]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• BMC Public Health
  • HIV and cardiovascular disease in sub-Saharan Africa: Demographic and Health Survey data for 4 countries [2021]
  • The association between HIV and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review [2017]

• International Journal of Epidemiology
  • Association of HIV and ART with cardiometabolic traits in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2013]

• PLoS ONE
  • Review of electrocardiographic abnormalities among people living with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review [2023]
  • Comparison of different cardiovascular risk tools used in HIV patient cohorts in sub-Saharan Africa; do we need to include laboratory tests? [2021]
  • The association between antiretroviral therapy and selected cardiovascular disease risk factors in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis [2018]

• Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Prevention of cardiovascular disease among people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa [2020]

• Scientific Reports
  • Prevalence of metabolic syndrome among people living with human immunodeficiency virus in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]
  • Hypertension among people living with human immunodeficiency virus in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2024]

Switzerland

• Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Polygenic Risk Scores for Prediction of Subclinical Coronary Artery Disease in Persons With Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV): The Swiss HIV Cohort Study [2023]

• Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • Association of Incomplete Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy With Cardiovascular Events and Mortality in Virologically Suppressed Persons With HIV: The Swiss HIV Cohort Study [2021]

United Kingdom

• British HIV Association
  • BHIVA rapid guidance on the use of statins for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in people living with HIV

• Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Incidence of Cardiometabolic Diseases in People With and Without Human Immunodeficiency Virus in the United Kingdom: A Population-Based Matched Cohort Study [2022]

• Journal of the International AIDS Society
  • The potential impact of new national guidance on primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in people living with HIV [2014]

United States

• American College of Cardiology
  • 2013 ACC/AHA and 2004 ATP III Cholesterol Guidelines Applied to HIV-Infected Patients with/without Subclinical High Risk Coronary Plaque [2014]

• American Heart Association
  • Characteristics, Prevention, and Management of Cardiovascular Disease in People Living With HIV: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association [2019]

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Provider Compliance With Guidelines for Management of Cardiovascular Risk in HIV-Infected Patients [2013]

• Circulation Research
  • Exercise to Prevent Accelerated Vascular Aging in People Living With HIV [2024]

• Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
  • Cardiovascular disease in people living with HIV: Risk assessment and management [2025]

• Clinicalinfo
  • Statin Therapy in People With HIV

• Journal of the American Heart Association
  • HIV Infection and the Risk of World Health Organization–Defined Sudden Cardiac Death [2021]

• Journal of the International AIDS Society
  • Incidence of cardiometabolic outcomes among people living with HIV-1 initiated on integrase strand transfer inhibitor versus non-integrase strand transfer inhibitor antiretroviral therapies: a retrospective analysis of insurance claims in the United States [2023]
  • Cost-effectiveness of statins for primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease among people living with HIV in the United States [2021]

• Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • Impact of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Cholesterol Guidelines on Statin Eligibility Among Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Individuals [2018]

• PLoS ONE
  • Trends in Myocardial Infarction risk by HIV status in two U.S. healthcare systems [2025]

• Topics in Antiviral Medicine
  • Prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease in HIV: practical insights in an evolving field [2023]
  • HIV and Cardiovascular Disease: From Insights to Interventions [2021]

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Statin Therapy as Primary Prevention for Persons With HIV: A Synopsis of Recommendations From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Antiretroviral Treatment Guidelines Panel [2025]

• U.S. Pharmacist
  • Novel Strategy for Preventing Cardiovascular Disease in Patients With HIV [2024]

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