Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has transformed HIV infection from an almost-always fatal disease to what is now a manageable, chronic health condition. Today, a person diagnosed with HIV at age 20 can expect to live suggesting that traditional methods physicians use to assess CVD risk do not account for the effects of HIV on the circulatory system.
Carl Dieffenbach, Ph.D., Director of the Division of AIDS, NIAID
HIV.gov
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