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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.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21303243 DOI: 10.3109/10826084.2011.522843
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Subst Use Misuse ISSN: 1082-6084 Impact factor: 2.164