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

Why HIV treatment makes people so susceptible to heart disease and diabetes

"Clinicians have known for some time that people treated for HIV also become much more susceptible to diabetes and heart disease. A study by scientists at Sydney's Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia, has now shown some of the reasons why - enabling better patient management and monitoring. Associate Professor Katherine Samaras, Head of Garvan's Diabetes and Obesity Clinical Research Group and senior endocrinologist at St Vincent's Hospital, has demonstrated that inflammation (typically associated with immune function) plays a much greater role than previously suspected. Her findings are published online today in the journal Obesity" - Physorg.com