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Changes in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors With Immediate Versus Deferred Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation Among HIV-Positive Participants in the START (Strategic Timing of Antiretroviral Treatment) Trial

Baker, JV; Sharma, S; Achhra, AC; Ignacio Bernardino, J; Bogner, JR; Duprez, D; Emery, S; ... Lundgren, J; + view all (2017) Changes in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors With Immediate Versus Deferred Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation Among HIV-Positive Participants in the START (Strategic Timing of Antiretroviral Treatment) Trial. Journal of the American Heart Association , 6 (5) 10.1161/JAHA.116.004987. Green open access

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Abstract

Introduction HIV infection and certain antiretroviral therapy (ART) medications increase atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk, mediated, in part, through traditional cardiovascular disease risk factors. Methods and Results We studied cardiovascular disease risk factor changes in the START (Strategic Timing of Antiretroviral Treatment) trial, a randomized study of immediate versus deferred ART initiation among HIV‐positive persons with CD4+ cell counts >500 cells/mm3. Mean change from baseline in risk factors and the incidence of comorbid conditions were compared between groups. The characteristics among 4685 HIV‐positive START trial participants include a median age of 36 years, a CD4 cell count of 651 cells/mm3, an HIV viral load of 12 759 copies/mL, a current smoking status of 32%, a median systolic/diastolic blood pressure of 120/76 mm Hg, and median levels of total cholesterol of 168 mg/dL, low‐density lipoprotein cholesterol of 102 mg/dL, and high‐density lipoprotein cholesterol of 41 mg/dL. Mean follow‐up was 3.0 years. The immediate and deferred ART groups spent 94% and 28% of follow‐up time taking ART, respectively. Compared with patients in the deferral group, patients in the immediate ART group had increased total cholesterol and low‐density lipoprotein cholesterol and higher use of lipid‐lowering therapy (1.2%; 95% CI, 0.1–2.2). Concurrent increases in high‐density lipoprotein cholesterol with immediate ART resulted in a 0.1 lower total cholesterol to high‐density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio (95% CI, 0.1–0.2). Immediate ART resulted in 2.3% less BP‐lowering therapy use (95% CI, 0.9–3.6), but there were no differences in new‐onset hypertension or diabetes mellitus. Conclusions Among HIV‐positive persons with preserved immunity, immediate ART led to increases in total cholesterol and low‐density lipoprotein cholesterol but also concurrent increases in high‐density lipoprotein cholesterol and decreased use of blood pressure medications. These opposing effects suggest that, in the short term, the net effect of early ART on traditional cardiovascular disease risk factors may be clinically insignificant." Clinical Trial Registration URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT00867048.

Type: Article
Title: Changes in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors With Immediate Versus Deferred Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation Among HIV-Positive Participants in the START (Strategic Timing of Antiretroviral Treatment) Trial
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.116.004987
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.116.004987
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2017 The Authors. Published on behalf of the American Heart Association, Inc., by Wiley. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is noncommercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
Keywords: antiretroviral therapy, cholesterol, HIV, risk factor
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health > Infection and Population Health
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1558622
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