Objective: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in people with HIV (PWH). Although hypertension is a well-known risk factor for CVD, studies investigating incident hypertension in PWH and its risk factors are scarce. In the present study, we set out to investigate incident hypertension and its predictors in the context of well-treated HIV infection.

Methods: We included 532 PWH from the Copenhagen Comorbidity in HIV (COCOMO study). All included individuals took part in both baseline and 2.5 years follow-up examinations. Linear and Poisson regression were used to test our hypotheses, both before and after adjusting for confounders.

Results: One hundred and five (19.7%) cases of incident hypertension occurred during 1217 person-years of follow-up (PYFU), corresponding to 8.5 cases per 100 PYFU. Waist-hip-ratio (relative risk (RR) 1.61 [1.34-1.94] and adjusted RR (aRR) 1.54 [1.24-1.91]) and central obesity (RR 2.41 [1.61-3.61] and aRR 2.29 [1.49, 3.52]) were significantly associated with this condition. No HIV-specific factors were found to be associated with incident hypertension.

Conclusions: In the present study, the incidence rate of hypertension in well-treated PWH was comparable to that of the general population from similar socio-economic settings. Traditional risk factors, in particular age and indices of adipose tissue accumulation, were associated with incident hypertension.Our results may further underline the pivotal importance of focusing on lifestyle changes and weight loss, rather than on HIV-specific factors, in order to prevent incident hypertension in well-treated PWH.

Download full-text PDF

Source
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/QAD.0000000000003609DOI Listing

Publication Analysis

Top Keywords

incident hypertension
16
people hiv
8
risk factors
8
hiv-specific factors
8
associated incident
8
hypertension well-treated
8
well-treated pwh
8
hypertension
6
incident
6
pwh
5

Similar Publications

Supine Blood Pressure and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality.

JAMA Cardiol

January 2025

Department of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Importance: Nocturnal hypertension while asleep is associated with substantial increases in risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and death. Whether hypertension while supine is a risk factor associated with CVD independent of seated hypertension remains unknown.

Objective: To investigate the association between supine hypertension and CVD outcomes and by hypertension treatment status.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Purpose: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is associated with morbidity and mortality in patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD). Several prediction models have been proposed to predict PH in ILD patients. We sought to discern how previously described prediction models perform in predicting PH in patients with ILD.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Purpose: This study analyzed longitudinal data to examine whether occupational sitting time is associated with increases in body mass index (BMI) and five-year cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

Methods: We included 2,000 employed men and women (aged 31-60) from the German Study on Mental Health at Work (S-MGA) for a BMI analysis and 1,635 participants free of CVD at baseline (2011/2012) for a CVD analysis. Occupational sitting time was categorized into five groups (< 5, 5 to < 15, 15 to < 25, 25 to < 35, and ≥ 35 h per week).

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: Hypotensive episodes detected by 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure (BP) monitoring capture daily cumulative hypotensive stress and could be clinically relevant to cognitive impairment, but this relationship remains unclear.

Methods: We included participants from the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (receiving intensive or standard BP treatment) who had 24-hour ambulatory BP monitoring measured near the 27-month visit and subsequent biannual cognitive assessments. We evaluated the associations of hypotensive episodes (defined as systolic BP drops of ≥20 mm Hg between 2 consecutive measurements that reached <100 mm Hg) and hypotensive duration (cumulative time of systolic BP <100 mm Hg) with subsequent cognitive function using adjusted linear mixed models.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Epidemiological characterization of COVID-19 in children under 18 years old in Mexico: an analysis of the pandemic.

Front Pediatr

January 2025

Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory, Research Division, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico.

Objective: The study aimed to describe the characteristics and risk factors associated with disease severity across six waves of COVID-19 in the pediatric population in Mexico.

Methods: A cohort study was conducted using data from the Mexican Ministry of Health, covering the period from March 2020 to March 2023. The dataset included patients under 18 years of age with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Want AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?

Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!