Prevalence of and risk factors for prediabetes in patients infected with HIV
Diabetes Spectrum May 19, 2018
Arafath S, et al. - A retrospective, cross-sectional study was performed to ascertain the prevalence of prediabetes as well as to evaluate risk factors associated with prediabetes in a cohort of HIV-infected patients. The sample consisted of two hundred forty-nine HIV-infected patients in an outpatient multidisciplinary HIV clinic in a university hospital. The data presented in this work showed a high prevalence of prediabetes was seen in this cohort of HIV-infected patients. They suggested that interventions targeting HIV-infected patients with increased risk of prediabetes, especially people with a high BMI, was required.
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