This is the blog for CARG, the Coronary Artery Rehabilitation Group, based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. It will contain items of interest to CARG's own members and anybody else interested in the latest news about rehabilitation and heart-related matters. Canadian charitable number: 89675 0163 RR 0001 || e-mail: carg.ca@gmail.com || website: carg.ca || Blog disclaimer
Monday, February 2, 2009
HIV patients with diabetes, heart disease have higher risk of heart events
"Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patients with heart disease or diabetes have a higher risk for subsequent coronary events than HIV patients without heart disease or diabetes, according to a report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. Researchers investigated the risk of a new episode of coronary heart disease from a database of more than 33,000 HIV patients in Europe, Australia and the United States according to their histories of coronary heart disease and whether they had diabetes or not" - American Heart Association
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