This issue of Research Initiative, Treatment Action (RITA!) carefully examines evidence from well over 100 studies on cardiovascular risk factors and the impact of individual and combined antiretrovirals on the heart.This RITA! also features an interview with the University of Wisconsin’s James Stein, perhaps the leading authority on cardiovascular disease in people with HIV. Stein offers frank and insightful answers to questions on cardiovascular risk, screening adults and children, the Framingham score, lipid targets, aspirin prophylaxis, and smoking.
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- 20 June 2013
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RITA! / Center for AIDS Information and Advocacy
Government's annual death report has confirmed the trend that less South Africans have been dying of HIV/AIDS-related diseases. However, more people are dying of non-communicable diseases such as diabetes. ...
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- 11 April 2013
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AllAfrica.com
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have determined the molecular structure of a protein whose mutations have been linked to several early aging diseases, and to side effects of common HIV and AIDS medications.
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- 11 April 2013
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University of Virginia press release
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.
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- 07 March 2013
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EATG / NATAP
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
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- 31 December 2012
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- Michael Carter
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
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- 19 November 2012
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- Michael Carter
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.
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- 09 November 2012
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International AIDS Society
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
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- 10 October 2012
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- Michael Carter
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
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- 12 September 2012
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- Michael Carter
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
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- 24 August 2012
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- Michael Carter
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