Statins reduce cardiovascular risk in people living with HIV, new global study finds

By Deborah Balthazar

A statin a day reduces the risk of heart disease in younger people living with HIV, according to a new study published Sunday in the New England Journal of Medicine. “What the study is saying is if you add a statin treatment to antiretroviral therapy … that will now prevent to a large degree, the excess cardiovascular risk associated with HIV,” said Steven Grinspoon, the lead author of the study and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

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