1.State-of-the-art of technologies to identify recent HIV infection and its role in controlling AIDS epidemic
Mingting CUI ; Shunran LI ; Haohang WANG ; Jianhui YUAN ; Yi ZHOU ; Caijun SUN
Chinese Journal of Experimental and Clinical Virology 2024;38(2):193-201
Currently, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) surveillance mainly relies on sentinel surveillance and the HIV/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) case reporting system to calculate the HIV infection rate, the number of newly reported HIV cases, and the HIV-related mortality rate, while theses measures are not able to directly estimate the HIV incidence. National-level research is conducted to investigate the characteristics of drug-resistant strains of HIV. HIV infection has the characteristics of a covert progression and a long-term latent phase, making it difficult to identify individuals in the acute infection stage. Conventional monitoring method struggles to determine the infection time of individuals, thereby introducing potential biases in the estimation of the incidence and impacting the comprehensive exploration of disease risk factors and the assessment of intervention measures. Recently, test for recent infection (TRI), as one of AIDS epidemic surveillance and intervention assessment measures, has become a vital way to estimate HIV incidence by testing the cross-sectional specimens. TRI can identify recent HIV infection and long-term HIV infection, consisting of serological and molecular method. Serological assays have been widely used because of their low cost, high accuracy of HIV infection incidence estimate and long development history, and their accuracy and simplicity have achieved significant progress in recent years. According to introduct the principle, accuracy and application of TRI, this paper reviews the latest progress, advantages, and limitations of TRI.
2. The sex- and age-specific association between resting heart rate and hypertension in rural adult residents of Henan province
Haohang SUN ; Zhenmin NIU ; Yang ZHAO ; Dongsheng HU
Chinese Journal of Cardiology 2020;48(1):54-60
Objective:
To investigate the sex- and age-specific association between resting heart rate and hypertension in rural adult residents of Henan province.
Methods:
At baseline, a total of 20 194 participants were randomly selected from Xin′an County of Henan province between July 2007 and August 2008. After excluding participants with hypertension or without resting heart rate data at baseline, and participants died or without hypertension outcome or diagnosed as gestational hypertension during follow-up between July 2013 and October 2014, 10 212 participants were finally included in this study. Multiple linear regression model was used to examine the association between resting heart rate and change of blood pressure. Logistic regression model was used to estimate the association between resting heart rate and risk of hypertension.
Results:
There were 2 059 new hypertensive cases (839 male) during the 6 years follow-up. After controlling for potential confounders, per 5 beats/minutes increases in resting heart rate was associated with 0.18 mmHg (1 mmHg=0.133 kPa) (95