Being a fat HIVer is bad for your health

[Martin]

Do you remember all those pictures of underweight HIVers that HIV
enablers and the media thrust upon us in the 1980s?

Twenty years later it's a totally different story. HIVers are now
more likely to be obese which, of course, brings with it its own
health problems.

I previously highlighted the fattening up of HIVers in April 2009, see
Usenet article <***@hiv-poz.co.uk> or
<http://www.hiv-poz.co.uk/articles/index.php?article=***@hiv-poz.co.uk>.

And now we discover that being a fat HIVer is bad for your health.

<http://www.opposingviews.com/articles/research-hiv-and-obesity-a-potentially-deadly-combination-r-1262103198>:

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Being obese is bad for people's health. And a study indicates that
being obese is bad for people with HIV in a way that's related to
their disease.

Nancy Crum-Cianflone of the Uniformed Services University of the
Health Sciences saw this in 22 years of data on more than 1,100
people. She examined the effect of obesity after therapy became
available to fight the AIDS virus on their immune cells – notably
their CD4 cells:

[Nancy Crum-Cianflone speaks] "People who had excessive weights had
lower CD4 counts than someone who had an appropriate weight."

Crum-Cianflone says it may be another reason to control weight.

The study presented at a meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of
America was supported by the National Institutes of Health.

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[Knickers Brown]

Post by Martin
Do you remember all those pictures of underweight HIVers that HIV
enablers and the media thrust upon us in the 1980s?
Twenty years later it's a totally different story. HIVers are now
more likely to be obese which, of course, brings with it its own
health problems.
I previously highlighted the fattening up of HIVers in April 2009, see
And now we discover that being a fat HIVer is bad for your health.
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Being obese is bad for people's health. And a study indicates that
being obese is bad for people with HIV in a way that's related to
their disease.
Nancy Crum-Cianflone of the Uniformed Services University of the
Health Sciences saw this in 22 years of data on more than 1,100
people. She examined the effect of obesity after therapy became
available to fight the AIDS virus on their immune cells – notably
[Nancy Crum-Cianflone speaks] "People who had excessive weights had
lower CD4 counts than someone who had an appropriate weight."
Crum-Cianflone says it may be another reason to control weight.
The study presented at a meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of
America was supported by the National Institutes of Health.
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14 years, 11 months and 21 days.

I have a theory that fat gay men did not get infected with HIV in the 1980s and 1990s much because their butts were so big it was hard to f--k them and infect them that way.