"Prematurely" troubled AIDS June 13, 2011 11:30:25 Source: Xinhua International Associated Press San Francisco, June 12 Peter Green Power】 AIDS patients have survived the first of those years, the disease is most serious for years. His three patients in one day die, and he was all original and in the acceptance would cause any toxicity of the treatment, Peter grateful to be able to continue to live.
However, diagnosis of AIDS 25 years later, 56-year-old Greene is in response to decreased visual acuity, low bone density and other serious damage to physical health problems.
Green said: "I went through all the serious problems in post-lived, and now has a lot of problems emerging. Liver disease, kidney disease ... ... It's like 50-year-olds have a 80-year-old's body. No matter what I bring to those non- how to say those friends, I am afraid this is not a general aging process. "
The researchers predicted that HIV is more susceptible to cancer, nervous disorders and heart disease, the elderly generally tortured. AIDS, first diagnosed 30 years later, doctors are now in a number of long-term patients who identified these and other signs not previously anticipated. These signs indicate that patients had prematurely or "accelerated aging" symptoms.
Government-funded scientists are currently researching a number of AIDS patients in four or five years of age demonstrated memory loss, arthritis, kidney failure and high blood pressure and other symptoms of HIV, treatment, medication or the result of interaction between the two.
According to the National Institutes of Health said that 2015, the United States more than half of HIV-infected persons over 50 years of age. So to some extent, address the AIDS virus in elderly patients constitute a "complex treatment issues" is a pressing task.
The federal health agency on infectious diseases, aging and the number of AIDS research head, said: "In the long-term HIV infected persons body, HIV will continue to activate the immune cells, which are likely to cause these people are more susceptible to inflammation caused by the disease, these people will continue to undermine the ability of resistance to certain diseases. As these adults are HIV long-term anti-retroviral drugs and the role, coupled with the gradual aging of the body, which seems to increase them to die of cardiovascular disease and , bone, kidney, liver, lung, and there is no direct relationship with the AIDS risk of many cancers. "
University of California San Francisco Center for AIDS Research, Dr John Malcolm, said the findings so far show that HIV does not directly lead to premature aging, but it will lead to AIDS patients suffering from diseases that they may be susceptible. Moreover, even if successfully treated AIDS patients, but as time goes by, the immune system was severely damaged.
