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Class of Antiretroviral Drugs and the Risk of Myocardial Infarction

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The DAD Study Group·2007·New England Journal of Medicine

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BACKGROUND: We have previously demonstrated an association between combination antiretroviral therapy and the risk of myocardial infarction. It is not clear whether this association differs according to the class of antiretroviral drugs. We conducted a study to investigate the association of cumulative exposure to protease inhibitors and nonnucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitors with the risk of myocardial infarction. METHODS: We analyzed data collected through February 2005 from our prospective observational study of 23,437 patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus. The incidence rates of myocardial infarction during the follow-up period were calculated, and the associations between myocardial infarction and exposure to protease inhibitors or nonnucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitors were determined. RESULTS: Three hundred forty-five patients had a myocardial infarction during 94,469 person-years of observation. The incidence of myocardial infarction increased from 1.53 per 1000 person-years in those not exposed to protease inhibitors to 6.01 per 1000 person-years in those exposed to protease inhibitors for more than 6 years. After adjustment for exposure to the other drug class and established cardiovascular risk factors (excluding lipid levels), the relative rate of myocardial infarction per year of protease-inhibitor exposure was 1.16 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.10 to 1.23), whereas the relative rate per year of exposure to nonnucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitors was 1.05 (95% CI, 0.98 to 1.13). Adjustment for serum lipid levels further reduced the effect of exposure to each drug class to 1.10 (95% CI, 1.04 to 1.18) and 1.00 (95% CI, 0.93 to 1.09), respectively. CONCLUSIONS: Increased exposure to protease inhibitors is associated with an increased risk of myocardial infarction, which is partly explained by dyslipidemia. We found no evidence of such an association for nonnucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitors; however, the number of person-years of observation for exposure to this class of drug was less than that for exposure to protease inhibitors.

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  • HIV patients have higher risk of cardiovascular events, even higher in those treated with protease inhibitors.

    “HIV patients have been found to have a higher risk of cardiovascular events, which was even higher in patients treated with protease inhibitors (Friis‐Moller et al, 2007; Islam et al, 2012; Shah et al, 2018).”

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The DAD Study Group
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The DAD Study Group
Venue
New England Journal of Medicine
Published
2007-04-26
Volume
356
Issue
17
Pages
1723-1735
ISSN
  • 0028-4793 (ISSN-L)
  • 1533-4406
OpenAlex
W1767400858
Cited by
1,521
References
26
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FWCI
185.17
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • New England Journal of Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
  • Digital Access to Libraries (submittedVersion)
  • Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles) (submittedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
  • Pure Amsterdam UMC (submittedVersion)
  • Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen) (submittedVersion)
  • Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University)
Funders
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (U01AI046362, U01AI042170)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Emergency Medicine › HIV-related health complications and treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › HIV/AIDS drug development and treatment
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Surgery › Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health
Keywords
myocardial infarction, antiretroviral drugs, protease inhibitors, non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, HIV infection, cardiovascular risk, dyslipidemia, serum lipids, drug exposure duration
MeSH terms
Adult, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Myocardial Infarction, Prospective Studies, Risk, HIV-1, HIV Infections, Incidence, Poisson Distribution, HIV Protease Inhibitors, Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors, Observation, Anti-Retroviral Agents, Dyslipidemias

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