Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in individuals with Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection - A nationwide population-based cohort study.

Rodrigue Garcia Peder Emil Warming Carl Johann Hansen Deepthi Rajan Christian Torp-Pedersen Thomas Lars Benfield Frederik Folke Jacob Tfelt Hansen

Published in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2023)

HIV is an independent risk factor of OHCA and OHCA victims with HIV are much younger than those without HIV. Almost 90% of PWH died one month after OHCA. Further research should strive to find out how to reduce OHCA occurrence in this population.

Keyphrases

human immunodeficiency virus
antiretroviral therapy
hepatitis c virus
hiv infected
hiv positive
hiv aids
hiv testing
men who have sex with men
risk factors
risk assessment
south africa