Does HIV Cause Cardiovascular Disease?
Open Access
- 28 November 2006
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 3 (11) , e496
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030496
Abstract
The authors discuss a study in PLoS Biology that investigated whether the lower levels of HDL cholesterol in patients with HIV may be due to impaired cholesterol efflux from macrophages.Keywords
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