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      Relationship between ankle-brachial index and carotid intima-media thickness in HIV-infected patients.

      AIDS (London, England)
      Adult, Aged, Ankle, blood supply, Brachial Artery, physiopathology, Carotid Artery Diseases, diagnosis, etiology, Carotid Artery, Common, pathology, Female, HIV Infections, complications, HIV-1, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Tunica Intima, Tunica Media

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          Both low and high ankle-brachial index are considered as indicators of systemic atherosclerosis in older HIV-negative adults. Whether those ankle-brachial index values are predictors of atherosclerosis in HIV-positive subjects remains unknown. We measured ankle-brachial index in 139 HIV-infected patients and compared the results obtained with carotid intima-media thickness, a well established marker of subclinic atherosclerosis. Ankle-brachial index was associated with carotid intima-media thickness. Patients with low ankle-brachial index, but not those with high ankle-brachial index, had high carotid intima-media thickness.

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