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- Title
Myocardial Infarction, Stroke, and Mortality in cART-Treated HIV Patients on Statins.
- Authors
Krsak, Martin; Kent, David M.; Terrin, Norma; Holcroft, Christina; Skinner, Sally C.; Wanke, Christine
- Abstract
Despite combination antiretroviral therapy (cART), people living with HIV (PLWH) continue to have more systemic inflammation and metabolic disturbances than the general population. These risk factors for atherosclerosis and organ dysfunction may be ameliorated by statins. We retrospectively analyzed 438 cART treated PLWH from the Nutrition For Healthy Living (NFHL) cohort to determine the association between statins and myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, and all-cause mortality as a composite. We used Cox proportional hazards regression as our main analysis. The average age was 44 years, 32% were women, and 67 of the 438 subjects used statins. There was no association between statins and our composite endpoint in two separate models [1.26 (0.57-2.79) in statin history model and 0.93 (0.65-1.32) per year in statin duration model]. The composite outcome was significantly associated with CD4 count, age, and smoking status in both models. CD4 count remained significant even after exclusion of mortality from the composite (HR=0.88, p=0.02). Confounding control via propensity scoring and multiple imputations did not change the results. Statins did not have an effect on MI, stroke, and mortality. Interestingly, CD4 count appears to be an important predictor of these outcomes, even after exclusion of death from the composite.
- Subjects
STATINS (Cardiovascular agents); ANTIRHEUMATIC agents; HIV-positive persons; LONGITUDINAL method; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL infarction; SCIENTIFIC observation; HEALTH outcome assessment; RESEARCH funding; STROKE; PROPORTIONAL hazards models; RETROSPECTIVE studies; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
AIDS Patient Care & STDs, 2015, Vol 29, Issue 6, p307
- ISSN
1087-2914
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1089/apc.2014.0309