HIV-Associated Myocardial Diastolic Dysfunction and Soluble ST2 Concentration in Tanzanian Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Kingery JR, Goyal P, Hosalli R, Lee MH, Desderius B, Kalokola F, Makubi A, Fadhil S, Kapiga S, Karmali D, Kaminstein D, Devereux R, McNairy M, Johnson W, Fitzgerald D, Peck R. HIV-Associated Myocardial Diastolic Dysfunction and Soluble ST2 Concentration in Tanzanian Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study. The Journal of infectious diseases. 2020 Jun 11. PMID: 32526008 [PubMed]

Abstract

1) To compare the prevalence of myocardial diastolic dysfunction (DD) in ART-naïve people living with HIV (PLWH) to HIV-uninfected adults in East Africa and 2) to determine the association between serum concentration of the cardiac biomarker ST2 and DD.