An HHS panel recommended this week that people with HIV begin taking a statin as young as age 40 years to lower their risk for a serious cardiac event, even if their risk for heart disease is in the low-to-moderate range.
The HHS Panel for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in Adults and Adolescents with HIV collaborated on the guidance with the HIV Medicine Association, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association.
Since 1996, as fewer people with HIV have died of AIDS-related reasons, cardiovascular and heart-related mortality has become a greater concern. After