Steven K Grinspoon1, Kathleen V Fitch1, Markella V Zanni1

  • 1From the Metabolism Unit (S.K.G., K.V.F., M.V.Z., M.R.D., E.S.F., S.E.L., S.M.), the Cardiovascular Imaging Research Center, Department of Radiology (K.P., B.F., M.T.L.), and the Yvonne L. Munn Center for Nursing Research (S.E.L.), Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, the Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (T.U., J.L.-C., H.J.R.), and the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction Study Group, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School (S.D.W.) - all in Boston; the Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati (C.J.F.), and the Division of Infectious Diseases, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus (C.D.M.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York (J.A.A.); the Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham (E.T.O.); the Department of Medicine, Duke Global Health Institute and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University (G.S.B.), and Duke University Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine (P.S.D.) - both in Durham, NC; the Division of Infectious Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (J.S.C.); the Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital Clinic and University of Barcelona, Barcelona, and CIBER de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid - both in Spain (E.M.); DLH, Silver Spring (J.C.R.), and the Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (P.D.-N.), and the Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (B.A.-S.), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda - all in Maryland; and Cleerly, Denver (U.H.).

概括

每日服用皮塔瓦斯塔丁可显著降低人类免疫缺陷病毒 (HIV) 感染者主要不良心血管事件的发生. 这项研究强调了皮塔瓦斯塔丁作为艾滋病毒阳性人群中初级心血管疾病预防的关键策略.

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