Low prevalence of peripheral arterial disease in HIV-infected patients with multiple cardiovascular risk factors

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 126-127

  Bernal, Enrique ^a   Masiá, Mar ^a   Padilla, Sergio ^a   Hernández, Ildefonso ^b   Gutiérrez, Félix ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ELCHE   (Spain)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE INHIBITOR; ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT;

ADULT; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY DISEASE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AWARENESS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; HIV ASSOCIATED LIPODYSTROPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE;

AGED; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 39049171093     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAI.0b013e318157b0b3     Document Type: Letter

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