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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.

Published
07 March 2013
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EATG / NATAP
Drug-resistant TB
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

Published
31 December 2012
By
Michael Carter
Cardiovascular disease
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

Published
19 November 2012
By
Michael Carter
Diabetes
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.

Published
09 November 2012
From
International AIDS Society
Nutrition
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

Published
10 October 2012
By
Michael Carter
Diabetes
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

Published
12 September 2012
By
Michael Carter
Diabetes
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

Published
24 August 2012
By
Michael Carter
Hepatitis C symptoms and diagnosis
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.

Published
13 July 2012
By
Michael Carter
Health problems
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.

Published
18 May 2012
From
HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Lipodystrophy
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

Published
30 April 2012
By
Michael Carter
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