Sudden Cardiac Death and Myocardial Fibrosis in Persons with HIV
We discovered that sudden death rates among HIV+ patients were about four times higher than sudden death rates in the general population, and accounted for 13% of all deaths among HIV+ patients. Autopsy-proven cardiac causes of sudden death were nearly 2-fold higher. We recently received new NIH funding to identify the mechanisms underlying the higher risk and rates of sudden cardiac death in the HIV+ population.
For more details on current HIV POST SCD research, please refer to our 2021 publication in the New England Journal of Medicine, Sudden Cardiac Death and Myocardial Fibrosis, Determined by Autopsy, in Persons with HIV.