Researchers from the United States have shown that people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are higher than the risk of sudden cardiac death. Article of scientists has been published in Journal of the American Heart Association.
Sudden heart death (WCS) occurs when the heart is unexpectedly and without preceding the reasons ceases to beat, shortly after which the blood flow to the authorities stops. You can save a person in this case only during the first minutes. The researchers analyzed the data of the Longitudinal (long-term) study of 144 thousand veterans of the US Armed Forces, whose average age was 50 years. In 30 percent of them were diagnosed with HIV.
for nine years – from 2003 to 2014 – when the health of the veterans was observed, the BCR occurred more than three thousand people. 777 of them (26 percent) had HIV. Assessing the influence of related factors, the researchers found out that the risk of WCIs in infected people was higher by 14 percent. At the same time, the level of T-helper (one of the types of cells of the immune system) was maintained: if the risk of HCR was 57 percent in HIV-infected with low blood content, then those who have it was normal, increasing Observed.