Fig. 2

Publication year for studies on HIV and CVD risk factors and outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. Full-text articles were stratified by year of publication and description of CVD risk factors, biomarkers of immune status and endothelial activation, surrogate CVD outcomes, acute coronary syndrome, or stroke. Of the 166 studies assessed in this review, the majority (n = 102) were published between 2013 and 2016. Only 3 months of 2017 publications were included