Over the course of their careers, many clinicians have seen HIV/AIDS progress from extremely high short-term mortality to chronic, long-term disease management. As HIV patients are living longer with antiretroviral therapy, it is becoming clear that the virus increases risk of cardiovascular conditions.1 The Randomized Trial to Prevent Vascular Events in HIV (REPRIEVE) study will include 6,500 participants and be conducted at approximately 100 sites. Its purpose is to test whether use of a statin medication (pitavastatin) can lower event rates for cardiovascular events such as myocardial infarctions (MIs) and strokes in this immunocompromised population.
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