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Participants Needed for Study to Assess Effects of Heavy Drinking on HIV/AIDS

Published in AIDS Weekly, September 18th, 2000

A new study at the San Francisco, California, Veterans Affairs Medical Center will reveal how heavy drinking affects the progression of HIV/AIDS.

The researchers are seeking participants for the study; subjects can be either HIV positive or negative, and can be heavy or light drinkers.

The HIV Alcohol Study will examine the effect alcohol consumption has on the body's metabolism of antiretroviral drugs, the patient's compliance with the drug treatment regimen, and how alcohol affects HIV's ability to damage the brain, said lead investigator Michael Weiner, MD, chief of MR spectroscopy at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and University of...

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