Hypertriglyceridemic waist identifies HIV+ men and women at increased cardiometabolic risk

Screening for increased waist circumference and hypertriglyceridemia (the hypertriglyceridemic-waist phenotype) is an inexpensive approach to identify patients at risk of coronary artery disease in apparently healthy individuals who may be at increased risk of type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease because of an excess of intra-abdominal (visceral) fat. We examined the relationship between the hypertriglyceridemic-waist and selected cardiometabolic risk factors in HIV individuals. Supplement: Abstracts of the Tenth International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1758-2652-13-S4-info.pdf Conference: Tenth International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection 7-11 November 2010 Glasgow, UK (Published: 8 November 2010) doi:10.1186/1758-2652-13-S4-P73 Cite this article as: Guaraldi et al.: Hypertriglyceridemic waist identifies HIV+ men and women at increased cardiometabolic risk. Journal of the International AIDS Society 2010 13(Suppl 4):P73. Full text: PubMed Central: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3113079/