Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 1995. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 1995. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Reuters NewMedia, Inc. - 14 Dec 1995
Dr Francis Drobniewski and colleagues at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York said they found a significant number of people over 50, especially men, tested positive for the HIV virus that causes AIDS.
Blood samples sent to a London laboratory for tests other than for HIV found that 3.2 percent of the men and 1.1 percent of the women tested positive, they said.
"In the USA 10 percent of AIDS cases are aged 50 years or more," Drobniewski wrote in a letter to the Lancet medical journal. "Such people are sexually active and so at risk."
The highest concentration was in men aged 50 to 59.
"Physicians should consider HIV infection in older men, particularly in cases of respiratory illness," the doctors concluded.
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