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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS. 2022 Feb 1;36(2):237–347. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000003107

Table 1.

Cardiovascular risk scores and their components in MACS men at the index visita,b,c

HIV− (n=1,265) HIV+ (n=1,396)
Not frail (n=1187) Frail (n=78) P a Not frail (n=1270) Frail (n=126) P a
Cardiovascular risk scores, median (IQR)
 ATP-III FRS, %b 6 (2–10) 10 (5–16) <0.001 4 (1–8) 6 (3–12) <0.001
 ACC/AHA PCE, %b,c 6 (4–11) 10 (7–19) <0.001 6 (3–9) 8 (4–14) <0.001
Cardiovascular risk scores, strata
ATP-III FRS, %b <0.001 0.001
 Low risk (<10%) 813 (68%) 32 (41%) 983 (77%) 79 (63%)
 Moderate risk (10–20%) 344 (29%) 40 (51%) 259 (20%) 42 (33%)
 High risk (>20%) 30 (3%) 6 (8%) 28 (2%) 5 (4%)
ACC/AHA PCE, %b,c <0.001 <0.001
 Low risk (<7.5%) 539 (57%) 19 (29%) 568 (64%) 48 (46%)
 High risk (≥7.5%) 406(43%) 46 (71%) 325 (36%) 56 (54%)
Cardiovascular risk score components, median (IQR)
 Age 50 (42–57) 54 (45–58) 0.03 45 (38–51) 50 (44–55) <0.001
 Total cholesterol, mg/dL 188 (165–216) 186 (160–220) 0.86 180 (153–208) 167 (147–187) 0.006
 HDL cholesterol, mg/dL 49 (41–58) 46 (39–55) 0.10 43 (36–53) 40 (35–50) 0.09
 SBP, mmHg 128(118–137) 130 (121–140) 0.09 126 (117–134) 128 (115–138) 0.58
Cardiovascular risk score components, strata
Race (Black or African American) 0.02 0.55
 No 929 (78%) 52 (67%) 848 (67%) 88 (70%)
 Yes 258 (22%) 26 (33%) 422 (33%) 38 (30%)
Current smoker 0.003 0.03
 No 888 (75%) 46 (59%) 830 (65%) 70 (56%)
 Yes 299 (25%) 32 (41%) 440 (35%) 56 (44%)
Antihypertensive medication use <0.001 <0.001
 No 923 (78%) 44 (56%) 1011 (80%) 75 (60%)
 Yes 264 (22%) 34 (44%) 259 (20%) 51 (40%)
Diabetes 0.001 0.001
 No 1105 (93%) 64 (82%) 1176 (93%) 105 (83%)
 Yes 82 (7%) 14 (18%) 94 (7%) 21 (17%)

ACC/AHA PCE: American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association pooled cohort equations; ATP-III FRS: Adult Treatment Program III Framingham risk score; HIV: human immunodeficiency virus; IQR: interquartile range; MACS: Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study; SBP: systolic blood pressure

a

Comparisons of continuous variables by Wilcoxon rank sum and categorical variables by Fisher’s exact test

b

ATP-III FRS and ACC/AHA PCE are in men 20–79 and 40–79 years of age, respectively

c

ACC/AHA PCE were available for 1010 (80%) HIV− and 997 (71%) HIV+ men at the index visit