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I've heard HIV patients describe ART as "aging" their organs. obviously preferable to dying horribly from AIDS, but still gnarly to contend with. it's really i
by sterlind 5y ago
I've heard HIV patients describe ART as "aging" their organs. obviously preferable to dying horribly from AIDS, but still gnarly to contend with.
it's really interesting to me that their health becomes poorer earlier, but that it doesn't affect mortality.
- touisteur 5y agoThis might maybe be because a lot of effort is now poured on mid to end of life care, with the improving life expectancy? So the science behind pushing along a decaying body gets better?
- sterlind 5y agoI sure hope so! I don't have HIV but I do have a genetic disorder that's wrecking my body. I'm determined to live as long as possible.
- touisteur 5y agoMy lovely wife is a live-liver-transplant kid and I too hope she outlives us all. Alas the 'organ preserving' drugs (the ones you take to help kidneys handle immunosuppressants) have difficult side effects. I'm not talking incomfort or pain, but pregnancy-terminating. Not the best way to end your first pregnancy... And as it's 'just' prevention, it's hard to know whether it will reliably improve this individual outcome...