Does HIV cause cardiovascular disease?
review · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 17132070.
- Also identified by PMC identifier 1664609.
- Licence recorded as CC BY.
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Abstract
The authors discuss a study in PLoS Biology that investigated whether the lower levels of HDL cholesterol in patients with HIV may be due to impaired cholesterol efflux from macrophages.
Medical subject headings
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- HIV Infections