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Association of Biomarker Clusters With Cardiac Phenotypes and Mortality in Patients With HIV Infection.
Circulation. Heart failure - 1 Apr 2018
Scherzer Rebecca, Shah Sanjiv J, Secemsky Eric, Butler Javed, Grunfeld Carl, Shlipak Michael G, Hsue Priscilla Y
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Although individual cardiac biomarkers are associated with heart failure risk and all-cause mortality in HIV-infected individuals, their combined use for prediction has not been well studied. METHODS AND RESULTS: Unsupervised k-means cluster analysis was performed blinded to the study outcomes in 332 HIV-infected participants on 8 biomarkers: ST2, NT-proBNP (N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide),...
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