AIDS Mortality

Positive feelings linked to lower risk of AIDS deaths

Published in Health and Medicine Week, September 15th, 2003

New research links feelings of hope, happiness, and enjoyment with a lower risk of dying from AIDS among men with HIV.

The study published in Psychosomatic Medicine is the first to demonstrate a link between positive feelings, or "positive affect," and reduced risk of AIDS mortality, said Judith Tedlie Moskowitz, PhD, MPH, of the University of California San Francisco.

Moskowitz said that interventions to increase positive feeling among people with HIV/AIDS may be useful to pursue, but warned that the association between positive feeling and lower risk of death is a complicated one.

"The goal is not to advocate a simplistic...

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Source: Health and Medicine Week (2003-09-15)

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