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Objectives
Smoking is a major contributor to mortality and morbidity in HIV‐positive individuals. Our primary objective was to evaluate the association between smoking status determined by plasma cotinine (P‐cotinine) concentration and inflammatory and endothelial biomarkers in HIV‐positive versus HIV‐negative individuals.
Methods
We studied eight inflammatory/endothelial biomarkers [high‐sensitivity...
ObjectivesEndothelial dysfunction and inflammation have been demonstrated to be markers of cardiovascular risk. We investigated the effects of HIV infection per se and the antiretroviral treatment prescribed on the levels of risk factors of cardiovascular disease.
MethodsThis was a prospective study of 20 treatment‐naïve, nonsmoking, HIV‐positive patients examined before and after 3 months of treatment...
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