How To Prevent Insulin Resistance When You Are Hiv Positive

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HIV Resistance Testing

What Is Resistance? HIV is "resistant" to a drug if it keeps multiplying rapidly while you are taking the drug. Changes (mutations) in the virus cause resistance. HIV mutates almost every time a new copy is made. Not every mutation causes resistance. The "wild type" virus is the most common form of HIV. Anything different from the wild type is considered a mutation. An antiretroviral drug (ARV) won't control a virus that is resistant to it....

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Resistance (TWO HIV POSITIVES, 2009)

Hello Robert,I met a guy and we are both HIV+ him 23 years and me 7 years.His CD4 is 155 and Viroload is undetectable on treatmentMy CD4 is 528 and Viroload is 3547 no treatmentHis virus is resistant to 90% of all medicine.My virus show hardly no...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,I actually have addressed this topic many, many times before. (See below for a sample of what can be found in the archives of this forum!)Can you acquire a second, more aggressive and drug-resistant strain of virus? Yes, this is unfortunately... Read more »

glucose tolearnce or insulin resistance test

Hello!I wonder if you can clarify something for me: I asked my doctor for an insulin resistance test and glucose tolerance test recommended to help determine the cause of my new found truncal obesity and addition of 7 inches to my waistline...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

Can you provide some more details about your HIV status and which HIV drugs you are on and family history of diabetes so that I can provide a better answer? KH... Read more »

Follow up to your advice to have a glucose tolearnce or insulin resistance test

Hello, Dr. Moyle,I wonder if you can clarify something for me: I asked my doctor for an insulin resistance test and glucose tolerance test recommended by you to help determine the cause of my new found truncal obesity and addition of 7 inches to my...

Response from Graeme Moyle, M.D.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital

Several studies (your Doctor may be familiar with one by Carr et al, another by Hadigan et al, there are also AACTG recommendations by Dube et al) have shown that for people with HIV a random or fasting glucose only pick ups up a minority of people... Read more »

What exactly are the symptoms of high insulin, insulin resistance and very high normal glucose levels?

What are the symptoms of insulin resistance and very high normal glucose levels? On that HgB 1a (?) test that gives you the three month average for your glucose, I was at 5.9 with 6 being the highest level for a non diabetic. Am awaiting results of...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

Most patients with insulin resistance and no frank diabetes are relatively symptom free (even with a high insulin). I could provide some more specifics depending on your HIV status and which HIV drugs you are taking. KH... Read more »

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New York draws fire over case of drug-resistantHIV

Posted by Anonymous

Nature 433, 788 (24 February 2005)

New York draws fire over case of drug-resistant HIV

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Rare, aggressive form of AIDS used to publicize dangers of unprotected
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