Impact of cardiology referral: clinical outcomes and factors associated with physicians' adherence to recommendations.

Objectives: Cardiology referral is common for patients admitted for non-cardiac diseases. Recommendations from cardiologists may involve complex and aggressive treatments that could be ignored or denied by other physicians. The purpose of this study was to compare the outcomes of patients who were given recommendations during cardiology referrals and to examine the clinical outcomes of patients who did not follow the recommendations.

Cardiovascular prevention in HIV patients: results from a successful intervention program.

Objectives: To analyze the effect of a prevention program on the estimated cardiovascular risk calculated by three risk scores.

Methods: We prospectively evaluated 87 HIV+patients with elevated cardiovascular risk estimation. Framingham (FRS), PROCAM and National Cholesterol Education Program (ATP-III) were applied.

[Hypolipidemic therapy under special conditions: acquired immune deficiency syndrome].

Lipid alterations can be observed early among patients with AIDS disease. Commonly, these lipid abnormalities include low HDL-C and modest increase in triglyceride plasma levels. Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART) in these patients may aggravate the dyslipidemia, with notable increases in triglycerides as well as in LDL-C.