Publications by authors named "Christian Ogoegbulam Isichei"
Article Synopsis
- - The study investigates the connection between obesity criteria and cardiovascular disease indicators in people living with HIV (PLHIV), focusing on 140 HIV-infected patients in Nigeria.
- - It finds a varying prevalence of obesity based on different criteria, with only 9.3% showing obesity across all four measures; BMI correlated with hypertension, while waist-hip-ratio linked to both hypertension and dyslipidaemia.
- - The research suggests that a standardized assessment of obesity, particularly central obesity, is crucial for evaluating cardiovascular risk in PLHIV, as no significant relationship was found between obesity and HIV-related factors.
Introduction: human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is evolving into a leading cause of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where the burden of HIV remains high. Atherosclerosis underlie progression to CVD. We therefore examined the prevalence of subclinical atherosclerosis and its association with traditional and non-traditional risk factors for CVD in Nigerian HIV-infected adults.
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