Diabetes

Diabetes features

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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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  Sweet sorrow: diabetes and HIV

  Gus Cairns spoke to a patient, George, about the complexities of managing diabetes and HIV. ...

  From:  HIV treatment update

Diabetes news from aidsmap

• Aggressive therapy for MDR-TB reduces risk of disease recurrence

  Aggressive treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) significantly reduces the risk of disease recurrence, investigators report in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Patients who received intensive therapy for at least 18 months after cure were 60% less ...

  31 December 2012 | Michael Carter

• Smoking the biggest single risk factor for acute heart disease in people with HIV

  Smoking is the single biggest risk factor for acute coronary syndrome in HIV-positive adults, Spanish researchers report in the online edition of HIV Medicine. Smoking was a much more important factor than diabetes and hypertension combined. “Future efforts to ...

  19 November 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

• People with HIV have a poorer response to diabetes therapy

  HIV infection is associated with a poorer response to therapy for diabetes, according to US research published in the online edition of AIDS. People taking antiretroviral therapy based on a protease inhibitor were especially likely to have a poor response ...

  12 September 2012 | Michael Carter

• Glucose metabolism worsens in HIV treatment-experienced taking NRTI-sparing regimens

  Italian investigators have found evidence of worsening glucose tolerance in highly treatment-experienced HIV-positive patients treated with nucleoside-sparing regimens. The small study, which is published in the online edition of AIDS, monitored the glucose metabolism of 39 patients over three years. ...

  24 August 2012 | Michael Carter

• Insulin resistance is a big risk factor for the progression of liver fibrosis in HIV/HCV co-infected people

  Insulin resistance is associated with the progression of liver fibrosis in people co-infected with HIV and hepatitis C, Canadian researchers report in the online edition of AIDS. Earlier research has shown that hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is associated ...

  13 July 2012 | Michael Carter

• Reductions in visceral fat during tesamorelin therapy associated with improvements in key metabolic markers

  Reductions in visceral adiposity achieved with tesamorelin therapy are associated with improvements in some key metabolic parameters, according to a study published in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. The HIV-positive patients who responded to the therapy had ...

  30 April 2012 | Michael Carter

• Metformin reduces artery plaque in HIV-positive people with metabolic syndrome

  The diabetes drug metformin can help stall progression of calcium buildup in the coronary arteries of HIV-positive people with metabolic abnormalities, potentially reducing their risk of cardiovascular events, researchers reported last week at the 19th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic ...

  14 March 2012 | Liz Highleyman

• Fat accumulation linked to cognitive impairment in patients with HIV

  Central fat accumulation is associated with an increased risk of neurocognitive impairment for HIV-positive patients, according to a study published in the February edition of Neurology. Overall 40% of patients in the study were diagnosed with impairment and increased waist circumference ...

  24 February 2012 | Michael Carter

• Earlier deaths in people with HIV due to drugs, alcohol, co-infections, poorly controlled HIV - not rapid ageing

  Patients taking antiretroviral therapy have the same mortality risk as individuals in the general population, according to Danish research published in the open-access journal PLoS One. However, this was only the case when the patients responded to treatment and ...

  12 December 2011 | Michael Carter

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• Every year of statin therapy boosts diabetes risk 10% in US HIV cohort

  Every year of treatment with lipid-lowering statins boosted the risk of diabetes 10% in members of the HIV Outpatient Study (HOPS). The results confirm an earlier finding of self-reported diabetes associated with statin use in a large general-population study of US postmenopausal women, but the impact of statins seemed more modest in the HOPS analysis.

  07 March 2013 | EATG / NATAP

• D:A:D model is good predictor of diabetes in HIV-positive people

  A model developed by the Data Collection on Adverse events of Anti-HIV Drugs (D:A:D) study group proved a good predictor of diabetes in HIV-positive people, better than the Framingham model in certain circumstances.

  09 November 2012 | International AIDS Society

• NHS 'wastes billions on diabetes'

  The bulk of the £9.8bn the NHS spends on diabetes each year is wasted - and the disease could cost it a sixth of its entire budget by 2035, says a report.

  25 April 2012 | BBC Health

• HIV Exacerbates Heart Risk from Hypertension

  Elevated blood pressure may warrant more aggressive management in HIV-positive individuals, suggest results from a cohort study reported at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.

  22 March 2012 | Family Practice News Digital Network

• Why are children missing from WHO targets on non-infectious diseases?

  Children die from cancer, heart disease and other non-infectious illnesses but they are in danger of being forgotten as global targets for action are drawn up, say health groups

  20 March 2012 | The Guardian

• Diabetes drug halts atherosclerosis progression in HIV-infected patients

  Treatment with the common diabetes drug metformin appears to prevent progression of coronary atherosclerosis in patients infected with HIV.

  08 March 2012 | Eurekalert Medicine & Health

• HIV Is 'Like Diabetes'? Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves

  My antenna perked up when I read a gay man's comment that HIV infection is essentially no big deal anymore. "It's like diabetes these days," he said. As an HIV-positive 53-year-old, familiar with the health details of some near and dear diabetics, I'd say this: we need to choose our analogies carefully.

  31 January 2012 | Huffington Post

• 2011 European AIDS Clinical Society adult treatment guidelines

  Updated adult treatment guidelines were issued by the European AIDS Clinical Society at the 12th European AIDS Conference, Belgrade, 12-15 October 2011. The guidelines include specific recommendations on managing co-morbidities and hepatitis B coinfection in people living with HIV.

  17 October 2011 | EACS

• New HIV Treatment Guidelines Focus on Comorbid Conditions

  The latest guidelines of the European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS), released here at the society's 13th European AIDS Conference, give special emphasis to comorbid conditions that may occur in patients infected with HIV.

  16 October 2011 | Medscape (requires registration)

• WHO framework targets tuberculosis—diabetes link

  The global diabetes epidemic could be thwarting efforts to combat tuberculosis. But WHO and its partners plan to take remedial action with the launch of a new framework.

  03 October 2011 | The Lancet

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