日批在线视频_内射毛片内射国产夫妻_亚洲三级小视频_在线观看亚洲大片短视频_女性向h片资源在线观看_亚洲最大网

Make me your Homepage
left corner left corner
China Daily Website

Many HIV patients skip medications to drink

Updated: 2012-11-02 09:40
(Agencies)

About half of HIV patients on antiretroviral therapy skipped their medications whenever they were drinking alcohol, according to a US study - an ill-advised behavior that researchers say could lead to higher viral loads.

The study, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, for a year followed nearly 200 people with HIV who were on antiretrovirals and drank alcohol. It found that 51 percent stopped taking their medications while drinking.

Lapses could be due to forgetfulness while under the influence, but a widespread - and erroneous - belief that mixing alcohol and HIV drugs can be toxic appears to play a role.

"The harms caused by missing their medications far outweigh the harms caused by mixing the two, if the person doesn't have liver disease," said Seth Kalichman, a professor at the University of Connecticut and lead author of the study.

Drinking has been known to interfere with people's adherence to their medications, but researchers said the consequences of inconsistent use of HIV medications can be more severe.

Antiretroviral drugs suppress the HIV virus, and patients must take the medications continuously to prevent the virus from surging. Additionally, going on and off the drugs can lead to drug resistance.

"People living with HIV who deliberately stop their medications when they are drinking are at risk for treatment failure," the researchers wrote.

Kalichman and his colleagues surveyed 178 people - about four out of five of them men - who were currently using antiretroviral therapy and reported that they drank alcohol.

At the beginning of the study, the researchers asked the participants about their alcohol-related beliefs, such as whether they thought their drugs wouldn't work as well if the two mixed. They also asked whether people would not take both at the same time, either by avoiding alcohol or the medicines.

Over the following year, the team checked in with patients every month to see how well they were sticking to their prescriptions through a pill count, and every other month they called to ask how often the patient had been drinking recently.

Doctors' offices measured each patient's level of virus and measures of immune system health.

They found that 51 percent of the patients would avoid the medications when they drank, and half of the people in this group had poor adherence to their prescriptions. In addition, half of the group that skipped pills said they wouldn't take them again until the alcohol was out of their system.

People who skipped medications while drinking were also more likely to have higher levels of HIV in their bodies and lower numbers of CD4 cells, a measure of immune system health.

"I think it's pretty well demonstrated that alcohol use is tied to poor adherence, and I think most people think it's because they're impaired in some way or they forget... whereas here it shows they're (often) intentionally missing their medications," said Catherine Grodensky, a researcher at the Center for AIDS Research at the University of North Carolina.

"And it looks like it's having some significant impacts on their treatment."

 
...
Hot Topics
...
...
主站蜘蛛池模板: 黄页在线看 | 2017天天干| 人人澡人人澡人人澡 | 日韩欧美中文字幕在线播放 | 播色网| 天天摸天天干天天操 | 女女综合网 | 国产无套丰满白嫩对白 | 91久久精品视频 | 日韩综合在线观看 | 中国2018年最新最好看的字幕 | 色综合五月天 | 51国产偷自视频区视频 | 久久精品免费 | 日本久久高清 | 伊人网大香 | 欧美日韩在线一区二区三区 | 精品国产91 | 中文字幕在线播出 | 欧美色综合网 | 国产超碰在线 | 四虎黄色影院 | 久久不卡影院 | 色444| 五月天婷婷在线视频 | 日韩在线观看不卡 | 午夜免费网址 | 日韩网站在线观看 | 91禁直接看| 精品二区在线观看 | xxx日本黄色| 天堂在线一区二区 | 久久影视一区 | 亚洲国产欧美日韩在线 | h片免费在线观看 | 欧美亚洲天堂网 | 亚洲欧美日韩国产精品 | 精品一区二区三区毛片 | 国产视频在线观看一区二区 | 成年人免费看片 | 一级免费黄色片 |