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Review
. 2024 Aug;21(4):417-427.
doi: 10.1007/s11897-024-00674-w. Epub 2024 Jun 28.

Precision Phenotyping of Heart Failure in People with HIV: Early Insights and Challenges

Eli Grunblatt  1 , Matthew J Feinstein  2   3
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Precision Phenotyping of Heart Failure in People with HIV: Early Insights and Challenges

Eli Grunblatt et al. Curr Heart Fail Rep. 2024 Aug.

Abstract

Purpose of review: People with HIV have an elevated risk of developing heart failure even with optimally controlled disease. In this review, we outline the various mechanisms through which HIV infection may directly and indirectly contribute to heart failure pathology and highlight the emerging relationship between HIV, chronic inflammation, and cardiometabolic disease.

Recent findings: HIV infection leads to chronic inflammation, immune dysregulation, and metabolic imbalances even in those with well controlled disease. These dysregulations occur through several diverse mechanisms which may lead to manifestations of different phenotypes of heart failure in people with HIV. While it has long been known that people with HIV are at risk of developing heart failure, recent studies have suggested numerous complex mechanisms involving chronic inflammation, immune dysregulation, and metabolic derangement through which this may be mediated. Further comprehensive studies are needed to elucidate the precise relationship between these mechanisms and the development of different subtypes of heart failure in people with HIV.

Keywords: HFpEF; HFrEF; HIV; Heart Failure; Inflammation; Metabolic Dysregulation.

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