AUG 15, 2026 · JOURNAL ARTICLE
Obesity at antiretroviral therapy initiation and long-term risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, or death in people with HIV in Italy: a prospective cohort study
Eclinicalmedicine
Prospective cohort study with adequate sample size and hard clinical outcomes (CVD, cancer, death), but unadjusted effect is attenuated to borderline significance after adjustment (aHR 1.28, 95% CI 0.98–1.67, p=0.073), limiting definitive causal inference.
Reported
Sample size11652
Participants with obesity647
Participants without obesity11005