Year: 2014

Statin Therapy Does Not Improve Cardiovascular Risk for Patients With HIV and Low HDL

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The main lipid abnormality of people living with HIV is low high density lipoprotein (HDL).  There are 5 subfractions of HDL: 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b, and 3c, from largest (and most effective in cholesterol removal) to smallest (and least effective). Neither pravastatin nor rosuvastatin changes the distribution of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) subfractions in patients who are …

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New CDC Guidelines: People at Risk for HIV Should Consider Truvada PrEP

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Healthcare providers should advise people at “substantial risk” for HIV infection about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) using tenofovir/emtricitabine, or Truvada, according to new guidelines issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This includes HIV negative people in an ongoing sexual relationship with HIV positive partners, gay or bisexual men who have had sex …

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PMMA-microspheres for the treatment of HIV-associated buttock lipodystrophy.

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Soft tissue augmentation with PMMA-microspheres for the treatment of HIV-associated buttock lipodystrophy. Authors Serra MS, et al.  Journal Int J STD AIDS. 2014 May 22. pii: 0956462414536878. [Epub ahead of print] Affiliation Abstract BACKGROUND: Progression of lipodystrophy syndrome is a big challenge in HIV treatment. Nowadays, fat loss at the lower part of buttocks has become another …

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The untold side of the movie “Dallas Buyers Club”

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The movie Dallas Buyers Club brings attention to a little-recognized part of the AIDS activist movement: the desperate struggle to provide anything that might treat the disease when no treatment was available. AL-721, Compound Q, Peptide T—buyers clubs formed around the country to bring in potential treatments, whether pharmaceutical or botanical, for both the virus …

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