HIV & SMOKING IS A LETHAL COMBO FOR THE LUNGS

via BlackDoctor:

HIV patients who take their medication but also smoke are about 10 times more likely to die from lung cancer than from AIDS-related causes, a new study estimates.

Lifesaving antiretroviral drugs have improved life expectancy to the point that patients now have more to fear from tobacco than HIV, said lead researcher Dr. Krishna Reddy.

“Thanks to antiretroviral medicines, people with HIV are living longer,” said Reddy, a pulmonologist and critical care doctor with Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. “The bad news is that they’re living long enough to get cancer.”

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