Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart: Caring for Cardiovascular Issues in Patients With HIV

The risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD), including coronary artery disease manifestations such as angina, myocardial infarction, stroke, heart failure (HF), and sudden cardiac death, is 1.5- to 2-fold greater in patients with HIV infections than the general population.^1-3 When patients with HIV also have other viral