ABSTRACT
Recent developments in HIV treatments have allowed for decreased morbidity in infected patients. Because of these patients’ longer survival, late-stage manifestations will be seen, including HIV-related cardiac diseases. This article postulates that the addition of soy protein to the diets of HIV-infected patients has cardioprotective effects. The most common pathology of infected individuals includes pericardial effusion, myocarditis, cardiomyopathy, and pulmonary hypertension (1). With the exception of the last, these conditions result from viral and bacterial infection and are not likely altered with dietary manipulation (2). For that reason the focus here remains on pulmonary hypertension along with other substantiated risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD).
