People with HIV in Uganda do not have a higher prevalence of coronary artery disease compared to people without HIV. Among both groups, the prevalence of coronary artery disease was low compared to populations in Europe and North America, a study presented last week at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2025) in San Francisco shows.
The findings suggest that giving statins as a measure to prevent heart disease in people with HIV at low-to-moderate risk of heart disease may not be priority in African populations.
Studies in high-income countries have shown consistently that people with HIV are at higher risk of cardiovascular disease than the rest of the population. But few studies have looked at cardiovascular disease in people with HIV in Africa, where the majority of people with HIV live.
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