TY  - JOUR
T1  - RIsk of heart failure with human immunodeficiency virus is greater than hypertension?
AU  - Neto A, Mosele F, Fuchs SC
Y1  - 2011/10/24
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.490
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1773
EP  - 1774
VL  - 171
IS  - 19
N2  - 
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

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.490
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.490
ER  -