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HIV Patients as Overweight as General Population


 

The researchers found that HIV-infected patients had significantly higher triglyceride levels, compared with controls, but lower LDL cholesterol and glucose levels.

Older patients with HIV represent “an increasingly important population,” Dr. Onen said. “By 2015, one in two people with HIV will be over the age of 50. Expect a large increase. They're here to stay, the treatments are good, and the treatments are becoming less and less toxic.”

HIV patients 'are not dying from life-threatening infections or developing wasting.' DR. CRUM-CIANFLONE

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