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- The study investigates the link between social isolation (SI) and hypertension, focusing on how this relationship evolves from adolescence into early middle adulthood, using a comprehensive dataset spanning from 1994 to 2018.
- Individuals experiencing SI in young adulthood or early middle adulthood have higher chances of developing hypertension later, with specific odds ratios indicating significant risk increases.
- The findings underscore the importance of targeting social isolation early in life to potentially prevent hypertension and related cardiovascular issues later on.
Background People living with HIV ( PLWH ) experience higher risk of myocardial infarction ( MI ) and heart failure ( HF ) compared with uninfected individuals. Risk of other cardiovascular diseases ( CVD s) in PLWH has received less attention. Methods and Results We studied 19 798 PLWH and 59 302 age- and sex-matched uninfected individuals identified from the MarketScan Commercial and Medicare databases in the period 2009 to 2015.
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