Blood pressure and mortality in a prospective cohort of HIV-infected adults in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Batavia AS, Severe P, Lee MH, Apollon A, Zhu YS, Dupnik KM, McNairy ML, Pape JW, Fitzgerald DW, Peck RN. Blood pressure and mortality in a prospective cohort of HIV-infected adults in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Journal of hypertension. 2018 Apr 9. PMID: 29634661 [PubMed]

Abstract

The objective of this study was to determine how baseline blood pressure and incident hypertension related to antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation, HIV-related inflammation and mortality in HIV-infected adults in a low-income country.