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Impaired distensibility of ascending aorta in patients with HIV infection

BACKGROUND: Our aim was to investigate the aortic distensibility (AD) of the ascending aorta and carotid artery intima-media thickness (c-IMT) in HIV-infected patients compared to healthy controls. METHODS: One hundred and five HIV-infected patients (86 males [82%], mean age 41 ± 0.92 years), and 12...

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Autores principales: Zormpala, Alexandra, Sipsas, Nikolaos V, Moyssakis, Ioannis, Georgiadou, Sarah P, Gamaletsou, Maria N, Kontos, Athanasios N, Ziakas, Panayiotis D, Kordossis, Theodore
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3447671/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22846182
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-12-167

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