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Excessive alcohol may accelerate development of AIDS symptoms. (adapted from Alcohol, 12,2:105-109, 1995)
Excessive alcohol consumption and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) are two major public health problems in the United States. Overwhelming evidence is showing that heavy alcohol ingestion broadly suppresses the various arms of immune response, seriously impairing the body's normal host defense to invading microbes and tumorigenesis.
The onset of clinical symptoms of AIDS (low CD4+ T cells count, opportunistic infections, and tumors) is quite variable among HIV + individuals with a mean incubation time of 3-10 years following seroconversion. Because of the harmful effects of chronic alcohol consumption on …
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