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Correction: AIDS-Heart Attack Story

From CDC National Prevention Information Network

April 8, 2008

The Associated Press has issued the following corrections to its article "Study Suggests Common AIDS Drug Nearly Doubles Heart Attack Risk" [covered here]. Among the study's patients, 517 had heart attacks, not 754. Follow-up was as long as eight years, not five years as stated in the article.

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Adapted from:
Associated Press
4.07.2008

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This article was provided by CDC National Prevention Information Network. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update.

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