Retinal Arterioles Narrow with Increasing Duration of Anti-Retroviral Therapy in HIV Infection: A Novel Estimator of Vascular Risk in HIV?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Pathai, Sophia ^a,b   Weiss, Helen A ^a   Lawn, Stephen D ^a,b   Peto, Tunde ^c   D'Costa, Leris M ^a   Cook, Colin ^d   Wong, Tien Y ^e   Gilbert, Clare E ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED FUNDOSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; RETINA ARTERIOLE; RETINA ARTERIOLE OCCLUSION; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT DURATION; VENULE; VIRUS LOAD;

ADULT; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; ARTERIOLES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETINAL VESSELS;

EID: 84870903978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051405     Document Type: Article

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