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Article: HIV patients in India do not get dementia, says Bangalore scientist
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- The Hindustan Times
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- January 31, 2008
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Bangalore, Jan. 31 -- Studies conducted by Dr. Ranga Uday Kumar, a scientist from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), here have revealed that HIV patients in India do not suffer from dementia due to genetics.
The observations made by Uday Kumar and his team will soon be published in reputed international medical and research journals.
In an exclusive interview to Asian News International on Monday, Dr Kumar said that the HIV viruses are classified into various sub-types. The virus found in Indians is of sub-type C.
"We, for the first time, demonstrated a very important difference in one ...