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Published on: October 6, 2016
Trends related to aging and co-occurring disorders in HIV-infected drug users
1Division of Infectious Diseases and Disease Prevention and Public Health Institute, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA. robert.klein@mssm.edu
Abstract:
Drug users with HIV infection successfully treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy are now living to older ages. As persons with HIV infection age, they become at risk for comorbidities that occur in any group of aging individuals. However, some of these conditions occur at increased rates, with increasing severity, or pose special problems in older persons with HIV infection. This article discusses the epidemiology of HIV infection in aging drug users, and hormonal, cardiovascular, liver, renal, bone, and cognitive disorders and depression and cancer in these individuals, as well as problems related to taking multiple medications and HIV disease progression.
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