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Overweight May Slow Onset Of Full-Blown AIDS.
2001 MAY 17 - (NewsRx Network) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Gaining a few extra pounds may help prevent the progression of HIV to full-blown AIDS, although the reasons are still unclear.
J. Shuter and colleagues at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx conducted a study to "determine the prevalence and predictive value of overweight in an urban HIV clinic." The results were published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.
Surprisingly, they found that patients who were overweight tended to have lower viral loads and were less likely to progress to AIDS than patients with a lower body mass index (BMI).
Female patients were much more likely to be overweight than male patients, Shuter et al. said. Almost a third (32.5%) of HIV positive women were overweight at the beginning of the study, and more than half became overweight at some point before its conclusion.
Overweight patients had immune cell counts similar to those of their lighter counterparts, and they began therapy at roughly the same time. Still, these patients displayed a trend toward ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Overweight May Slow Onset Of Full-Blown AIDS.