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Tobacco consumption is the modifiable risk factor contributing most to the development of non‐AIDS‐defining events among persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). Clinicians' awareness of this problem is critical and not yet adequate. Practical information issued by public health authorities or contained in experts' clinical guidelines regarding how to address smoking cessation in PLWHA is scarce. The...
ObjectivesThe aim of the study was to assess the separate contributions of smoking, diabetes and hypertension to acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in HIV‐infected adults relative to uninfected adults.
MethodsTwo parallel case–control studies were carried out. In the first study, HIV‐positive adults diagnosed with ACS between 1997 and 2009 (HIV+/ACS) were matched for age, gender and known duration of...
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