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Bearing the Burden of Non-AIDS Comorbidities: This Is What Women Aging With Human Immunodefiency Virus Look Like

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: (See the Major Article by Collins et al on pages 1301–11.) Non-AIDS comorbidities are leading causes of death in people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), particularly among individuals on chronic antiretroviral therapy (ART) [1]. Human immunodeficiency virus infection accelerates the development of age-related comorbidities, with research showing that the presence of 2 or more conditions, such as diabetes mellitus, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, and bone fractures, may occur about a decade earlier in persons living with HIV compared with individuals without HIV [2]. A disproportionate burden of non-AIDS...

Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases

DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa209

Authors: Moises A Huaman, Carl J Fichtenbaum

Institution: University of Cincinnati

Language: English