Special coverage of the 43rd IDSA meeting. Texas researchers find a new independent predictor of mortality among HIV patients. Abnormal ECGs have diagnostic potential.
A new study shows that electrocardiogram results for HIV patients could show which patients will have a faster disease progression. In the study of 223 HIV-positive individuals, those who had abnormal ECG readings had died in within a little more than a decade, while 36 percent of those who had normal or borderline findings had died within the same time frame.
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