Giuseppe Schillaci, Paolo Maggi, Giordano Madeddu, Giacomo Pucci, Elena Mazzotta, Giovanni Penco, Giancarlo Orofino, Barbara Menzaghi, Stefano Rusconi, Laura Carenzi, Benedetto M Celesia, Canio Martinelli, Paolo Bonfanti, Giuseppe Vittorio De Socio
OBJECTIVE: HIV infection has been associated with increased cardiovascular risk. Twenty-four-hour ambulatory blood pressure (BP) is a more accurate and prognostically relevant measure of an individual's BP load than office BP, and the ambulatory BP-derived ambulatory arterial stiffness index (AASI) and symmetric AASI (s-AASI) are established cardiovascular risk factors. METHODS: In the setting of the HIV and HYpertension (HIV-HY) study, an Italian nationwide survey on high BP in HIV infection, 100 HIV-infected patients with high-normal BP or untreated hypertension (72% men, age 48 ± 10 years, BP 142/91 ± 12/7 mmHg) and 325 HIV-negative individuals with comparable age, sex distribution, and office BP (68% men, age 48 ± 10 years, BP 141/90 ± 11/8 mmHg) underwent 24-h ambulatory BP monitoring...
March 2013: Journal of Hypertension