. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Sep 12.

Published in final edited form as: Life Sci. 2019 Sep 6;235:116851. doi: 10.1016/j.lfs.2019.116851

Table 1.

Search strategy used in PubMed

Search #	PubMed search terms
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#5	Search #3 AND #4
#4	Search #1 OR #2
#3	carotid artery stiffness [title/abstract] OR carotid stiffness [title/abstract] OR carotid intima media thickness [title/abstract] OR cIMT [title/abstract]
#2	antiretroviral therapy, highly active [MesH] OR combination antiretroviral therapy [title/abstract] OR antiretroviral drug [title/abstract]
#1	HIV [MesH] OR human immunodeficiency virus [title/abstract] OR HIV-infected [title/abstract] OR HIV infection title/abstract]

Limits: Humans, English, German, Dutch, Young adults, Adults, Middle aged and Middle aged + aged.