NIH launches search to find HIV drug that won’t cause heart conditions
A new study by the National Institutes of Health will explore the ways in which patients with HIV can avoid heart attacks, because one could be especially deadly for someone with the condition, reports the Baltimore Sun.
Cardiovascular disease is one of the most prevalent complications patients get after contracting HIV. To combat it, NIH has organized a long-term study to provide a drug that will treat HIV without causing heart problems. The research will take place at 100 hospitals, academic centers and health facilities around the world.
"When I first started taking care of patients in the 1980s they virtually would all die, but now they're living and getting complications from the disease, the most prominent of which is cardiovascular disease," said Anthony S. Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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