The success of antiretroviral therapies has extended the lives of people living with HIV, long enough for other chronic health conditions to emerge, including a recently documented uptick in sudden death. Now, in a study comparing medical information and portable EKG patch data from men living with HIV to men without it, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers and collaborators report they have found more variability of the electrical “reset” period between heartbeats—known as the QT interval—in men living with the virus, which may contribute to the increased risk of sudden cardiac deaths.
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