Dr. Matthew Freiberg of the University of Pittsburgh, Pa., Medical School followed 82,459 former military personnel for six years, mostly men.
The results, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), report an increased risk of myocardial infarction in HIV-positive people regardless of the age studied. The figures, obtained after removing the risk factors known asarterial hypertension, the smoking and alcohol, reveal a “significantly higher frequency of infarction in seropositive subjects compared to those who were not infected with HIV,” the study concludes. In detail, among 40 to 49 year olds, the rate of heart attack was 2 per thousand in HIV-positive people, against 1.5 per thousand in HIV-negative people.
Among those aged 50 to 59, the rate was 3.9 per thousand compared to 2.2 per thousand among those who were HIV-negative. Finally for 60-69 year olds, the heart attack ratio was 5 per thousand, against 3.3 per thousand in the group that was not infected.
This new information on AIDS comes a few days after the announcement of the functional recovery of a child infected with AIDS.
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