Hot Flashes and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Indices Among Women With HIV

Mabel Toribio; Evelynne S Fulda; Sarah M Chu; Zsofia D Drobni; Magid Awadalla; Madeline Cetlin; Takara L Stanley; Crystal M North; Michael D Nelson; Michael Jerosch-Herold; Lidia S Szczepaniak; Tricia H Burdo; Sara E Looby; Tomas G Neilan; Markella V Zanni

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofab011

Hot Flashes and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Indices Among Women With HIV

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2021 Jan 12;8(2):ofab011. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofab011. eCollection 2021 Feb.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Metabolism Unit, Division of Endocrinology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
² Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center (CIRC), Department of Radiology and Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁴ Applied Physiology and Advanced Imaging Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, USA.
⁵ Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁶ MRS Consulting in Biomedical Research, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
⁷ Department of Neuroscience, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁸ Yvonne L. Munn Center for Nursing Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Abstract

Women with HIV (WWH) transitioning through menopause have heightened cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. In the general population, hot flash burden relates to CVD risk indices. We found higher hot flash burden among women with vs without HIV. Further, among WWH, hot flash burden related to select CVD risk indices.

Clinicaltrialsgov registration: NCT02874703.

Keywords: HIV; cardiovascular disease; hot flashes; menopause; women.

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