Ageing and HIV

Ageing and HIV features

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  Finances for the over-50s

  Guest writer Emma Lunn investigates some of the financial options for people approaching retirement age....

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  A healthy – and happy – old age with HIV

  At least one–in-five people with HIV in the UK is now over 50.1 Gus Cairns asks: What’s the recipe for staying fit and happy as we age? ...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  HIV and TB in Practice for nurses: non-communicable diseases, HIV and TB

  Conditions such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes in low- and middle-income countries, and awareness of these conditions in people living with HIV and/or TB. ...

  From:  HIV & AIDS treatment in practice

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  Growing pain

  As people with HIV live longer, they are facing pains old and new. David McLay reports on peripheral neuropathy and arthritis....

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  The prescription for old age

  What will happen as the HIV-positive population grows older is already the topic most frequently suggested by readers for HIV Treatment Update to cover. It was recently the...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Will a long life be a good one?

  People with HIV are now living into old age – an old age many regard with fear, as Lisa Power from the Terrence Higgins Trust finds...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  How long have I got, doc?

  Can people with HIV really live as long as anyone else? Gus Cairns investigates ...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Securing your future

  Emma Lunn looks at insurance for people with HIV....

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Why we won’t die of AIDS

  A study in France has found that, whatever older people with HIV die of, it probably won’t be AIDS. In recent years one of the increasingly hot topics...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Scattered pictures – brain impairment and HIV

  Gus Cairns and Theo Smart investigate HIV-related brain impairment, memory loss and dementia ...

  From:  HIV treatment update

Ageing and HIV in your own words

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  A senior moment: sero-conversion late in life

  I’m a senior citizen and a gay man living with HIV. I’m not the only gay HIVer of my generation, of course, but I’m perhaps different from...

  From:In your own words

Ageing and HIV news from aidsmap

• Low nadir CD4 cell count associated with increased cataract risk in South Africans taking HIV therapy

  A low nadir (lowest ever) CD4 cell count is associated with increased lens density – a marker for cataract formation – in people with HIV, investigators report in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune ...

  22 February 2013 | Michael Carter

• Classic characteristics of old age associated with poor physical function in middle-aged people living with HIV

  Impaired physical function in middle-aged people living with HIV is associated with low muscle mass, reduced bone mineral density and hormonal changes, according to research conducted in the United States and published in the online edition of the Journal ...

  20 February 2013 | Michael Carter

• Frailty increases the risk of fragility fractures in men living with HIV: data collected in routine HIV care can help predict risk

  Important physiologic markers of frailty are associated with fragility fractures in men living with HIV, according to research conducted in the United States and published in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. “Among HIV-infected men, physiologic frailty…is strongly ...

  18 February 2013 | Michael Carter

• Tenofovir impairs enzyme that stops cells ageing

  A team of Australian researchers has found that tenofovir and, to a lesser extent, other drugs from the nucleoside/nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) class, impairs an enzyme that slows down or stops ageing processes in immune cells in the test ...

  31 January 2013 | Gus Cairns

• Co-infection with hepatitis B or C is a risk factor for reduced bone mineral density among women with HIV

  Co-infection with hepatitis B or C is associated with reduced bone mineral density (BMD) in women living with HIV, French investigators report in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. The investigators compared bone mineral ...

  28 January 2013 | Michael Carter

• Life expectancy in older people with HIV could exceed the average – as long as ART keeps working

  The latest forecasts of life expectancy in people with HIV in the UK, based on mortality data from the UK Collaborative HIV Cohort (UK CHIC) study, show that the average life expectancy of people on antiretroviral therapy (ART) with ...

  19 November 2012 | Gus Cairns

• Traditional risk factors predict neurocognitive impairment in people with HIV

  Neurocognitive impairment in people with HIV – loss of memory, poor concentration and declining mental ability – is most likely to be happening for the same reasons as in the wider population, and the risk of ...

  31 October 2012 | Michael Carter

• Frailty common among HIV-positive patients in South Africa, but early ART may be protective

  Frailty is common among HIV-positive people in South Africa, investigators report in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. A low CD4 cell count was associated with an increased risk of frailty, and women ...

  12 October 2012 | Michael Carter

• Obesity is a risk factor for co-occuring chronic health problems in patients with HIV

  Obesity is associated with the clustering of multiple health problems in HIV-positive people, investigators from the US report in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. Compared to people of a healthy weight, obese individuals were ...

  10 October 2012 | Michael Carter

• Starting HIV treatment reduces the risk of serious non-AIDS-related diseases

  Serious non-AIDS-defining illnesses are common in people recently diagnosed with HIV, Spanish investigators report in the online edition of AIDS. “Clinicians should be aware that during the initial follow-up after HIV diagnosis NAE [non-AIDS events] do occur,” comment the authors. ...

  09 October 2012 | Michael Carter

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Ageing and HIV news selected from other sources

• Over 10% in Older HIV Group Fit Alzheimer's Biomarker Risk Profile

  Slightly more than 10% of older Australian patients with well-controlled HIV infection had cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) marker profiles consistent with Alzheimer's disease--a risk prevalence more than 10 times higher than in the general population at the same age.

  13 March 2013 | NATAP

• HIV and women over 50: 'I've had to make this journey almost entirely alone'

  Anna's story – that of an older, heterosexual British woman who has contracted HIV – is unusual, but she is certainly not alone.

  12 March 2013 | The Guardian

• Young Males With HIV Face Greater Risk of Hearing Loss

  HIV infection is significantly associated with an increased risk of developing sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL), according to research published online Feb. 21 in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.

  02 March 2013 | Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants

• HIV Linked to Sudden Loss of Hearing

  Having HIV appears to increase the risk of sudden sensorineural hearing loss, at least among younger patients, researchers reported.

  22 February 2013 | MedPage Today HIV/AIDS

• Multiple factors affect HIV prognosis, study shows

  In a major advancement for the field of HIV treatment, a new study has identified a more accurate method of suggesting prognosis for HIV patients. The new method, called the Veterans Aging Cohort Study index, takes into account factors such as hemoglobin level, platelet count and comorbidity.

  05 February 2013 | Yale Daily News

• Activist discusses challenge of growing old with HIV

  Old age comes faster and hits harder for those infected with HIV, a fact aging health activist Ron Swanda knows all too well.

  30 November 2012 | AFP

• Africa faces spike in older people living with HIV

  Sub-Saharan Africa is likely to see a more than 200 percent increase in the number of older people living with HIV in the next 30 years, thanks to improvements in lifesaving treatment, experts said Thursday.

  19 October 2012 | AFP

• "Premature Aging" and HIV: Dispelling Myths and Calculating Risk

  Here's the bottom line on "accelerated aging" among people with HIV: It's probably not as bad as you think.

  25 September 2012 | The Body

• Stribild (a.k.a. "Quad") Performs Well for People Over 50, Study Finds

  Stribild (elvitegravir/cobicistat/emtricitabine/tenofovir) performs similarly among people over 50 years old as with younger people, according to the results of a two-study sub-analysis presented at ICAAC 2012. The presentation marks part of an emerging trend in research that reflects the aging of the HIV-infected population in the U.S., and the need for more studies on antiretrovirals specifically within older groups.

  24 September 2012 | The Body

• Federal AIDS official: Older Americans trigger 'greying' of HIV

  A statistic that emerged on National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day: By 2015, more than half of Americans living with HIV – many of them gay men – will be over age 50.

  20 September 2012 | Examiner.com

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