The 12-month period prevalence and cardiac manifestations of HIV in patients with acute coronary syndrome at a tertiary hospital in Cape Town, South Africa: a retrospective cross-sectional study

Table 4 Echocardiographic parameters of HIV-positive compared to HIV-negative patients

Variable, mean (SD) except where specified	HIV+	HIV-	p-value
LA diameter (mm) (n = 48)	3.47 (0.52)	3.84 (0.67)	0.124
LA area (cm²) (n = 73)	17.89 (4.28)	19.58 (4.80)	0.219
LVIDs (mm) (n = 73)	3.37 (0.54)	3.96 (0.90)	0.019
LVIDd (mm) (n = 77)	4.72 (0.49)	5.11 (0.83)	0.083
Ejection fraction (%) (n = 86)	45.4% (11.56)	44.3% (12.46)	0.758
E/e’ (n = 69)	12.18 (5.06)	14.06 (8.22)	0.4171
Effusion: n (%) (n = 77)	2 (13.3%)	7 (11.3%)	1

Bolded text = statistically significant. SD standard deviation, LA left atrium, LVIDs left ventricular internal diameter end-systole, LVIDd left ventricular internal dimension end-diastole, E/e’ ratio between early mitral inflow velocity and mitral annular early diastolic velocity

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