Howard N. Hodis

TL;DR: Higher carotid stiffness was independently associated with faster decline in executive functioning, information processing, and psychomotor speed even in mostly middle-aged minority women and regardless of HIV serostatus, highlighting the need for cardiovascular risk factor modification in this at-risk population.

TL;DR: Hormone replacement therapy for the reduction of atherosclerosis progression and cardiovascular events has become complicated because of conflicting outcomes from recent surrogate end point studies and secondary prevention randomized clinical trials.

TL;DR: It is concluded that neutral small unilamellar liposomes can be used to carry agents into the arterial wall in vivo in the study of hypertensive vascular disease and could be especially useful for the delivery of pharmacologically or biologically active agents that would otherwise be inactivated within the circulation or are impermeable to the arterIAL wall.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that local European ancestry plays an important role in genetic associations of cCIMT among black women from WIHS along with other environmental factors that are related to CVD and may also be triggered by HIV.

TL;DR: There now exists a large body of evidence which indicates that low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) lowering can stabilize and regress coronary artery disease (CAD) and there remains little doubt that aggressive LDL-C lowering with lipid-lowering drugs is clinically indicated.