By Marie Rosenthal, MS
The risk for myocardial infarction (MI) in those with HIV is nearly double that of the general population (JAMA Cardiol 2016 Dec 21. [Epub ahead of print]).
Many physicians use a risk calculator to assess a person’s risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, a recent study from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago, found that risk for those with HIV was about 50% higher than predicted by this risk calculator, according to Matthew