Article: Multivitamins Slow AIDS Effect in Study; African Patients Had Deficient Diets

People infected with the AIDS virus who take multivitamins every day have a slightly slower progression of their illness, researchers are reporting today.

The findings will be most useful in the developing world, where an effort is underway to treat millions of HIV-infected people and vitamins could be an easily implemented first step.

The effect is not dramatic but is probably enough to warrant a recommendation that people infected with HIV take vitamins if their diet is potentially deficient, some experts said.

Supplements "might buy time to allow people to go longer before they develop symptoms that require antiretroviral treatment," said Lynne Mofenson, chief of AIDS activities at the ...

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