If
a person starts to give medication immediately after diagnosis "HIV",
it can slow down the process of infection, and began a lifelong course
of drugs can be postponed, writes The Daily Mail. This, in turn, will reduce the chance of spreading the disease.
Meanwhile, patients usually do not prescribe antiretroviral therapy before their immune systems are seriously damaged. But a team from King's College London offers to give medication at once, in order to reduce the concentration of virus in the blood for up to 60 weeks.
Dr Sarah Fidler and colleagues studied 366 patients with HIV. Some of them were given for 12 weeks medication. The second group received 48 weeks of preparations. The third did not take drugs as long as the concentration of CD4 T cells was less than 350 cells per cubic milliliter of blood (normal concentration of 600 to 1200).
They then began to observe how long it takes for as long as the number of T-cells drop below 350. Another marker was the beginning of life-long course of antiretroviral drugs.
Group of patients received no medication, started life course through 157 weeks after infection. People taking antiretroviral drugs for 12 weeks - 184 weeks of infection. But here are taking medication for 48 weeks passed on lifelong therapy after an average of 222 weeks. And the concentration of T-cells was higher in the latter. Plus, reduce the risk of secondary infections such as tuberculosis.
Meanwhile, patients usually do not prescribe antiretroviral therapy before their immune systems are seriously damaged. But a team from King's College London offers to give medication at once, in order to reduce the concentration of virus in the blood for up to 60 weeks.
Dr Sarah Fidler and colleagues studied 366 patients with HIV. Some of them were given for 12 weeks medication. The second group received 48 weeks of preparations. The third did not take drugs as long as the concentration of CD4 T cells was less than 350 cells per cubic milliliter of blood (normal concentration of 600 to 1200).
They then began to observe how long it takes for as long as the number of T-cells drop below 350. Another marker was the beginning of life-long course of antiretroviral drugs.
Group of patients received no medication, started life course through 157 weeks after infection. People taking antiretroviral drugs for 12 weeks - 184 weeks of infection. But here are taking medication for 48 weeks passed on lifelong therapy after an average of 222 weeks. And the concentration of T-cells was higher in the latter. Plus, reduce the risk of secondary infections such as tuberculosis.
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