RT Journal
A1 Neto A, Mosele F, Fuchs SC
T1 RIsk of heart failure with human immunodeficiency virus is greater than hypertension?
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2011
FD October 24
VO 171
IS 19
SP 1773
OP 1774
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.490
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.490
AB 
The authors have used previously validated criteria to define heart failure, CHD, HIV infection, hypertension, and diabetes,2 based on codes of the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) attributed to inpatient and/or outpatient diagnoses. As reported in previous studies, there was a reasonable agreement of these definitions with medical records and/or laboratory test–based diagnoses.3 Hypertension is one of the most important risk factors for heart failure, and adherence to lipid-lowering antihypertensive drugs is inversely associated with alcohol consumption and illicit drug use, risk factors for HIV infection.4