Browsing Faculty of Health Sciences by Subject "HIV-1"
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Cardiometabolic changes in treated versus never treated HIV-infected Black South Africans: the PURE study
(Elsevier, 2014)Background The use of antiretroviral treatment is known to be accompanied by several negative health outcomes and may negatively affect a country such as South Africa, which is the most burdened by the human immunodeficiency ... -
Is HIV-1 infection associated with endothelial dysfunction in a population of African ancestry in South Africa?
(Clinics Cardive, 2011)The chronic infection status suffered by HIV-infected individuals promotes chronic arterial inflammation and injury, which leads to dysfunction of the endothelium, atherosclerosis and thrombosis. Although HIV-1 subtype C ... -
Soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) is associated with metabolic changes in HIV-1 infected Africans: a prospective study
(Springer, 2012)Soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) is associated with inflammation and may predict lipodystrophy and dysmetabolism in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected individuals on antiretroviral therapy. ...