Dilated cardiomyopathy: low CD4 cell count was an independent predictor of having an echocardiographic diagnosis of DCM (OR 0.988, 95% CI: 0.978–0.998, p = 0.021) after adjusting for age, gender, use of HAART and duration of HIV infection. Here, CD4 is linked to familial dilated cardiomyopathy.