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August 6, 2024MicrocirculationOpen Access

Retinal Vessel Functional Responses in South Africans Living With and Without HIV: The EndoAfrica‐NWU Study

Catharina Elizabeth Myburgh Shani Botha‐Le Roux Konstantin Kotliar Annemarie Wentzel Adriaan Jacobs Patrick De Boever Nandu Goswami Hans Strijdom Wayne Smith

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Abstract

The effects of HIV and antiretroviral therapy (ART) on microvascular function are poorly explored. We compared retinal vessel functional responses to flicker light-induced provocation (FLIP) in people living with HIV (PLWH) and people living without HIV (PLWoutH).

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Myburgh et al. (2024) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e5d477b6db64358756a76d https://doi.org/10.1111/micc.12878

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