Guidelines for managing cardiovascular risk: an evolving area.
OBJECTIVE
To reflect on the need for guidelines to assist clinicians in the management of cardiovascular risk in HIV-infected patients.


RESULTS
Over the past eight years guidelines for the management of dyslipidemia and metabolic complications of HIV infection have been developed and revised as new information becomes available.


CONCLUSIONS
Current guidelines for managing cardiovascular risk in HIV patients are limited by the currently available data, but nonetheless provide a useful approach to assist clinicians.
Currier
Judith S
JS
Center for Clinical AIDS Research and Education, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90035, USA. jscurrier@mednet.ucla.edu
Lundgren
Jens D
JD