HIV, HIV-Specific Factors, and Myocardial Disease in Women.
Yoko KatoBharath Ambale-VenkateshMahim NaveedSanyog G ShitoleQi PengJeffrey M LevskyLinda B HaramatiKaren OrdovasSusan M NoworolskiYoo Jin LeeRyung S KimJason M LazarKathryn AnastosPhyllis C TienRobert C KaplanJoao A C LimaJorge R KizerPublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2024)
Compared with sociodemographically similar women without HIV, WWH on ART exhibit higher myocardial fibro-inflammation, which is more prominent with unsuppressed viremia or CD4+ lymphopenia. These findings support the importance of improved ART adherence strategies, along with better understanding of latent infection, to mitigate cardiac end-organ damage in this population.