Posted on 04/01/2015 7:13:57 AM PDT by NetAddicted
There is growing concern among scientists that inflammation caused by HIV and the side effects of some antiretroviral drugs, especially protease inhibitors, are increasing cardiovascular risk among people living with HIV. This was revealed during the fifth annual East African health and scientific conference held in Kampala last week. It was held under the theme; ‘Investing in health through strengthening regional health systems and institutions towards the prevention and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases.’ Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are heart and blood-vessel-related conditions, including hypertension, stroke, heart attacks and heart failure, among others and these account for nine per cent of all deaths related to non-communicable diseases in Uganda, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). “There is evidence that people living with HIV may sometimes experience inflammation of the heart and veins as a result of long- term exposure to the virus. Inflamed arteries trap more plaque (fat) which makes it hard for blood to enter or leave the heart, leading to CVD,” said Prof Gerald Yonga, a cardiologist with the Aga Khan University hospital in Kenya. He added that stroke, heart attack and hypertension were the commonest HIV-related CVDs. A study conducted by Johns Hopkins University researchers on 618 men living with HIV published on April 1, 2014 in the medical journal, Annals Of Internal Medicine, says in part, men with long-term HIV infections are at higher risk than uninfected men of developing plaque in their coronary arteries. This suggests increased risk for heart attacks.
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It’s the republicans fault.
What did “GRID” mean thirty years ago?
Quick, we need to find a cure, so that homosexuals can go back to raping America’s young boys.
Actions have consequences. Ayn Rand noted that you can choose to ignore reality but not the consequences of ignoring reality.
Maybe we should impose a gay-marriage tax to start paying for this.
That’s an understatement.
HIV in any manifestation of symptoms, whether from the disease itself or from treatment regimens ought to scare the hell out of health professionals in my opinion.
It’s simply called NATURAL LAW...it exists and solves most problems that plague human kind — Nature abhors misconduct.
With delays, since people don’t have to pay the full cost of HIV drugs thanks to ACA. There’s some reasons why some lifestyles are for 2 percent of the population, because our nation would get more $;&;& up than it already is if the percentages were higher.
Definitely, I am scared of risky behavior given all the bad side effects of HIV medication, plus there’s the need to take the meds every 4 to 6 hours or risk the virus adapting to the drugs, then no transmitting the virus to someone while you’re on drugs or else the infectee potentially is a factory of drug immune HIV, and the list drags on...
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