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Article: Multivitamins Slow AIDS Effect in Study; African Patients Had Deficient Diets
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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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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