Sex, HIV Status, and Measures of Cardiac Stress and Fibrosis in Uganda

Sex, HIV Status, and Measures of Cardiac Stress and Fibrosis in Uganda

Background Biomarkers of myocardial stress and fibrosis are elevated in people living with HIV and are associated with cardiac dysfunction. It is unknown whether sex influences these markers of heart failure risk in sub‐Saharan Africa, where HIV burden is high and where the vast majority of women wi...

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Main Authors: Jasmine Kipke, Seunghee Margevicius, Cissy Kityo, Grace Mirembe, Jonathan Buggey, Chun‐Ho Yun, Chung‐Lieh Hung, Grace A. McComsey, Chris T. Longenecker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021-06-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
cardiac biomarkers
cardiac fibrosis
echocardiography
HIV
sex
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.120.018767

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