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  Off the hook: smoking – and how to give it up

  Gus Cairns investigates the fatal attraction between people with HIV and cigarettes – and tries to kick the habit himself. ...

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• HIV is an independent risk factor for lung cancer

  Infection with HIV is an independent risk factor for lung cancer, according to the results of a large US study published in the online edition of AIDS. Investigators from the US Department of Veterans Affairs found that HIV increased ...

  03 April 2012 | Michael Carter

• Cancers in people with HIV: who gets them, and which ones?

  A very low CD4 count in the past, and a history of smoking, are the most consistent risk factors to emerge from large studies of risks for developing both AIDS-defining and non-AIDS-defining cancers, researchers reported at the 19th Conference ...

  12 March 2012 | Keith Alcorn

• Smoking cessation counselling and treatment during routine HIV care helps patients to quit

  The provision of smoking cessation counselling and therapy during routine HIV care increases the chances that patients will stop smoking and stay stopped, according to Swiss research published in HIV Medicine. Physicians at the Zurich HIV clinic received training about smoking ...

  24 January 2012 | Michael Carter

• Smoking, not immunodeficiency or lung disease, increases lung cancer risk for patients with HIV

  Cigarette smoking is the single most important risk factor for lung cancer in patients with HIV, Swiss investigators report in the online edition of the British Journal of Cancer. Smoking was associated with a 14-fold increase in the risk of ...

  17 January 2012 | Michael Carter

• Lung cancer is biggest killer in study of non-AIDS-defining cancers

  A large cohort study of non-AIDS-defining cancers in people with HIV has found that while lung cancer was responsible for 16% of cases of these cancers it was responsible for 37% of non-AIDS-defining cancer deaths. Anal, liver, prostate ...

  22 October 2011 | Gus Cairns

• Mobile phone support helps patients with HIV stop smoking

  A mobile phone counselling service can help people with HIV to stop smoking – at least in the short-term, US investigators report in the online edition of Nicotine & Tobacco Research. Patients who used the counselling service were four-times more ...

  04 July 2011 | Michael Carter

• Smoking and its consequences: studies probe quitting, relapse and lung disease

  Two adjacent posters at the Tenth International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection (HIV10) in Glasgow last week looked at smoking in people with HIV and at its most common consequence – not heart attacks or lung ...

  17 November 2010 | Gus Cairns

• Infectious and non-infectious lung disease risk increased for those with HIV

  HIV is associated with an increased risk of lung disease with infectious and non-infectious causes, US investigators report in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. The study was conducted in the era of modern antiretroviral treatment, ...

  29 September 2010 | Michael Carter

• Recurrent pneumonia increases lung cancer risk for patients with AIDS

  Recurrent bacterial pneumonia is associated with an increased risk of lung cancer in patients with AIDS, US investigators report in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. The association between pneumonia and lung cancer was especially ...

  06 September 2010 | Michael Carter

• Both traditional risk factors and biomarkers associated with cardiovascular disease in patients with HIV

  Family history and smoking are the strongest predictors of cardiovascular disease in patients with HIV, US investigators report in the online edition of AIDS. They also found that biomarkers associated with clotting and endothelial dysfunction – ...

  04 June 2010 | Michael Carter

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• HIV Infection Not Associated With Lung Cancer

  Higher lung cancer rates have been reported in people with HIV/AIDS than in the general population, but it has not been clear why.

  18 November 2011 | Medscape (requires free registration)

• TB smoking toll 'could reach 40m'

  Forty million smokers around the world could die from TB by 2050, research suggests.

  05 October 2011 | BBC Health

• Text messages 'help smokers quit'

  Supportive text messages can double the chance of someone successfully quitting smoking, according to UK researchers.

  30 June 2011 | BBC Health

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