Lifestyle & progression

Lifestyle & progression

AIDS Treatment Update, No. 44, August 1996
Edward King

One of the world's largest studies of long term non-progressors has found no evidence that psychological or lifestyle factors make any difference to the likelihood that people with HIV will develop AIDS. The study at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital found that factors such as personality, depressive tendencies, coping, support mechanisms and stressful life events had no influence on an individual's likelihood of developing AIDS. Nor did recreational drug use, diet, alcohol consumption or a history of sexually transmitted diseases. The only factor shown to have any influence apart from viral load was an individual's genetic type (Tu.C.550).

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