Hiv And Diabetes Comorbidity

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Co-Morbidity and Late Presentation -- Findings From an Over 50s Cohort

The number of HIV positive patients accessing care in the UK who are aged over 50 years old has more than tripled between 2000-2009 from 2,432 to 12,063. Twenty percent of adults presenting for HIV care are now over 50. Previous cohort data showed... Read more »

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Comorbidities and Depression in Older Adults With HIV

The authors undertook the current study to investigate whether the high rates of depression seen in older HIV-positive adults are associated with the number and types of comorbidities. The researchers used a non-parametric test of association and... Read more »

Are Diabetes and High Blood Pressure to Blame for Unemployment in the HIV/AIDS Community?

According to a French study, the probability HIV-positive people will leave their job within five years of being diagnosed is 35 percent -- and not for reasons you might think. Researchers analyzed 622 patients who received HIV care between 2004 and... Read more »

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HIV+ CO-MORBIDITY WITH SLEEP APNEA?

I was diagnosed sleep apnea in 2005 having been positive for 6 years and on ARV for 3 years then. I had tonsillectomy in May 2006. In the course of this time I have changed my drug regime twice. First was from Stocrin to Nevirapine because of the...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

Some HIV+ persons who are doing well can have persistent enlarged lymphoid tissue including in the oral cavity. Sleep apnea can be a challenging disorder for which CPAP can provide symptomatic improvement and for which surgery is not always the... Read more »

17 y.o. female with comorbid Chron's, malabsorption =viral resistance

Do you have any suggestions for treatment? Presently on 40 mg. D4T q 12;40 mg. 3TC q 12; 1250 mg. NFV q 12; Prednisone 60 mg; cipro & Flagyl. Pt is allergic to Sulfa, Augmentin, Septra etc. Pt is > 90% adherent, body is failing to absorb...

Response from Andrew T. Pavia, M.D.

University of Utah, School of Medicine

We often worry about malabsorption in patients who have diarrhea, and especially those with small bowel disease. Obviously, you want to be really, really sure that adherence is not an issue, and in a 17 year old, I am a skeptic.You don't... Read more »

Can HIV cause Diabetes?

Yes, Say someone is HIV positive and does not know it, then gets sick with Diabetes. Can being HIV positive by itself without use of HIV medications cause a person to develope Diabetes..? It seems that people who are HIV positive have to take...

Response from Alvan Fisher, M.D.

Brown University School of Medicine

Please see the last posted question for a response to this.AF... Read more »

HIV/diabetic symptoms

Does HIV infection itself (versus HAART drugs) cause diabetic symptoms, such as insulin resistance and high glucose?Thank you....

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

Not likely. There is either a genetic predisposition underlying the infection, or HIV drugs unmask or hasten the onset. The exact mechanism of how HIV drugs do this is not yet established.... Read more »

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hiv and diabetes

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

I'm on HIV and type II diabetes meds, and for the past month intermittently get small welts on my legs that last about 2 hours then go away. They're round red, don't itch. Lacitc acidodsis or what???? Read more »

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Anybody out there managing both hiv and diabetes? Would like to start correspondence. Read more »

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Does anybody know if having diabetes would effect hiv antibody production after infection??? I'm a juvenile diabetic who tested negative (ELISA) at 6 weeks and i'm so scared that my body hadn't developed antibodies yet. Please let me know if anyone... Read more »

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