{"id":1837,"date":"2024-11-01T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moomango.co.uk\/guides\/?page_id=1837"},"modified":"2024-11-22T21:09:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T21:09:03","slug":"heart","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\/heart","title":{"rendered":"Age, HIV drugs and heart disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15942\" src=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/hearts-orange.png\" alt=\"Orange heart\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>HIV drugs are very safe, including for your heart. However, a few HIV meds are not recommended if you have a high risk of heart complications.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The biggest risks for heart disease are cigarettes, having a poor diet and not being physically active. Not being on ART is also a risk.<\/p>\n<p>HIV drugs linked to heart disease are abacavir, maraviroc and darunavir. Also, some older drugs that are now rarely used (ddI, fosamprenavir\/r, lopinavir\/r and saquinavir\/r).<\/p>\n<p>Your HIV doctor should check your risk of heart disease online when you are diagnosed, before ART and then every year.<\/p>\n<p>BHIVA recommend several online risk calculators:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chip.dk\/Resources\/Clinical-risk-scores\">chip.dk<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qrisk.org\">qrisk.org<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/qdiabetes.org\">QDiabetes<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The QDiabetes calculator also looks at risk for type-2 diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that these calculators only offer binary options of being a man or a woman. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC10546528\/\">This US study<\/a> <\/strong>highlights how these calculators might be less accurate for trans people. It also highlight the importance of more research.<\/p>\n<p>This i-Base guide includes detailed info on heart disease and diabetes:<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/side\">HIV and your quality of life: a guide to side effects and long term health<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It also covers long-term health issues related to ageing well with HIV.<\/p>\n<p>This link includes info on every HIV drug:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"i-base.info\/guides\/category\/arvs\">Information on individual ARVs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Smoking<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/better-health\/quit-smoking\/\">NHS Better Health: quit smoking apps and tips<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As with HIV negative people, lifestyle changes to reduce your risk of heart disease is good advice if you are HIV positive.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The mind is very complex. I think the child in me had wished this nasty thing away for so long \u2013 acknowledging yet not acknowledging.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2014 Faith, Luton<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HIV drugs are very safe, including for your heart. However, a few HIV meds are not recommended if you have a high risk of heart complications. The biggest risks for heart disease are cigarettes, having a poor diet and not &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1547,"menu_order":22,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-guides.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1837","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17697,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1837\/revisions\/17697"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}