Ideal Cardiovascular Health: Distribution, Determinants and Relationship with Health Status among People Living with HIV in Urban Tanzania

Ageing adults living with HIV (ALHIV) have increased risk of cardiovascular diseases as a result of HIV-infection-related chronic immune activation and inflammatory responses. Cardiovascular health index (CVHI) is a valid and relatively simple index for assessing the cardiovascular health (CVH) of t...

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Published in:Global heart 2022-10, Vol.17 (1), p.74
Main Authors: Ottaru, Theresia A, Kwesigabo, Gideon P, Butt, Zeeshan, Rivera, Adovich S, Chillo, Pilly, Siril, Helen, Hirschhorn, Lisa R, Feinstein, Matthew J, Hawkins, Claudia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Blood Pressure
cardiovascular diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases - epidemiology
cardiovascular health index
Cross-Sectional Studies
Health Status
hiv
Humans
ideal cardiovascular health
Original Research
Risk Factors
tanzania
Tanzania - epidemiology
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Summary:Ageing adults living with HIV (ALHIV) have increased risk of cardiovascular diseases as a result of HIV-infection-related chronic immune activation and inflammatory responses. Cardiovascular health index (CVHI) is a valid and relatively simple index for assessing the cardiovascular health (CVH) of the general population. Use of this index among ALHIV in Sub Saharan Africa, a resource-restricted setting where it could be mostly beneficial, remains limited. Understanding of the distribution and associated factors may inform the design of optimal interventions to improve CVH of ALHIV. We aimed to assess the distribution and factors associated with CVHI scores among ALHIV in an urban setting in Tanzania. A cross-sectional study was conducted among ALHIV on antiretroviral therapy at six HIV clinics in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. We summed the score of each of the seven CVHI metric to obtain the overall CVHI score and assessed the distribution of the score by sex. We then categorized the overall score into ideal (5-7), intermediate (3-4) and poor (
ISSN:2211-8160
2211-8179
2211-8179
DOI:10.5334/GH.1157