Exercise

Exercise features

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  That feel-good factor: exercise and HIV

  Derek Thaczuk gets off the couch and finds out about exercise and HIV. ...

  From:  HIV treatment update

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  Why fit is happy: exercise, mood and HIV

  The team here at NAM will be taking part in a couple of fundraising events this summer involving exercise. At the less demanding end of the scale,...

  From:  HIV treatment update

Exercise in your own words

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  Live on, live long

  Twenty-one years on… I have been living with HIV for 21 years and I am now on second-line treatment. When I am doing counselling with people who...

  From:In your own words

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  The Ikea approach

  I’ve no doubt that the main reason that I’m alive and well after 15 years of living with HIV is because combination therapy became available...

  From:In your own words

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  'I just take the tablets and get on with my life'

  I was diagnosed HIV-positive in 1997. I'm now 65. It was a bit of a shock. It could never happen to me, after all. I...

  From:In your own words

Exercise news from aidsmap

• Traditional risk factors strongest predictors of sub-clinical cardiovascular disease in people about to start HIV therapy

  Sub-clinical cardiovascular disease in people with HIV is more strongly associated with traditional risk factors for heart disease rather than inflammation or HIV-related parameters, US research published in the online edition of AIDS suggests. The cross-sectional study involved ...

  17 December 2012 | Michael Carter

• Diet, exercise and cancer screening boosted by 'highly feasible' intervention targeted at HIV serodiscordant couples

  Fruit and vegetable consumption and exercise frequency can be increased by participation in a health promotion intervention designed to reduce the risk of chronic diseases, investigators report in the April 25th edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine. The research involved ...

  11 May 2011 | Michael Carter

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Exercise news selected from other sources

• Exercise Guidelines Published for People with HIV Over 50

  A combination of aerobic and resistance exercises, three times a week for at least six weeks, is recommended to improve cardiovascular, metabolic and muscle function in people living with HIV older than 50 years of age, according to suggested guidelines published ahead of print by the Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.

  17 August 2011 | AIDSMeds.com

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