Research shows people with heart failure are much more likely to die if they also have HIV

WTOP (Washington DC) ^ | April 9, 2022 | Kristi King

[FalloutShelterGirl]

People who develop heart failure are 73% more likely to die if they have HIV, compared with people with heart failure who are not infected.

The new national research compared people within the same geographic areas who shared the same age, gender and race from three Kaiser Permanente health systems and the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Research Institute. It’s published in the European Heart Journal Open.

“A 73% difference is meaningful,” said Dr. Michael Horberg, primary investigator of the study for the Kaiser Permanente Mid-Atlantic States region and director of HIV/AIDS and STD for Kaiser Permanente.

Noting that data on 425,000 patients was evaluated, Horberg, who also is executive director of the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Research Institute, said “When the numbers get that big, even little changes can become significant.”

This study also found that people with HIV and heart failure are at higher risk of death from any cause compared to people who have heart failure without HIV.

Aging people with HIV often develop cardiovascular, kidney, liver, bone and neurological disease.

“But, interestingly, heart failure has not really been studied as a discrete, separate condition in HIV, and this was really new and novel — and in fact was so novel that the NIH (National Institutes of Health) actually funded the study,” Horberg said.

[Vermont Lt]

The early HIV survivors are old now.

Having CHF with any disease makes death more likely.

This seems pretty obvious.

[bert]

Oh..... 73%. I thought something obvious was being hidden

So a queer with heart disease is more likely to die than a nonqueer

[TnTnTn]

Imagine that…

[The Pack Knight]

This just in: People with a deadly disease are more likely to die if they also have a second deadly disease. Details in this month’s edition of the medical journal “Duh.”

[Sarcazmo]

XD

[discostu]

It’s usually because they’ve got to fill the time. TV news has to be X number of minutes every day. Whether or not there’s anything going on, they need to fill that time. I’ve got a friend who used to be a semi-profession TV expert. When science and space topics came up they called him. One day they accidentally left him alone with the rolodex. So he looked himself up. Found there was a note that said “good for 2 to 3 minutes on most science and space topics”.

I clicked through to the article. Then clicked through to the study. Published December 1 2021. So this has been sitting on a shelf in the news area since then. Just waiting for somebody to say “we’re 45 seconds short and we have done a health story in weeks”. Boom.

[Trillian]

VAIDS?