AIDS virus carriers aging faster

In 1988, have been married seven years, the 37-year-old and 34-year-old Dennis拉里吉布森goli are checking out with HIV (HIV). Looking back on this painful day, 63-year-old Gibson, said: "We are different, it seems older than the actual."

 

    The United States, "Los Angeles Times" recently reported that in the United States, AIDS, aging is that this plague has not yet been fully aware of the new stage of development, which has its own unique complexity. Gibson and Golley aging faster than others. Medical treatment, according to two doctors, said common disease of older persons appear in them than many people anticipated even earlier.

    Golley said: "We found there only the symptoms of my mother, while she was 86 years old."

    Golley a heart attack last year, even though she usually very attentive to diet and physical exercise. Golley had open-heart bypass surgery.

 

    Gibson eyes sunken, protruding cheekbones, a senile appearance, it is taking control of HIV medicines cause side effects. Fat atrophy was once so goli into a hump.

 

    Los Angeles, University of California AIDS Clinical Research and Education Center Dr Edisimo said: "I have some patients who got this terrible disease, earlier than the normal 10 or 20 years too old disease. This is bad news. But good news is that they are still alive. "

 

    In the early stages of HIV treatment, viral drug resistance. In 1996, researchers have invented a drug, together with three kinds of treatment "cocktail" therapy, efficacy is much better than single drugs. Mortality rate greatly reduced.

 

    Now, the market sold more than 25 kinds of anti-AIDS drugs, the side effects after treatment can be adjusted with a good variety of "cocktail" therapy. But the health problems difficult to resolve, doctors can not tell what symptoms are being caused by a virus and what symptoms are side effects after treatment, and which symptoms are caused by aging.

 

    Previously, very few elderly people carrying HIV can not be carried out relevant studies. Now, with the elderly people carrying HIV, more and more research in this area are well under way.

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