Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, July 18th, 2006
"Bone disorders such as osteopenia and osteoporosis have been recently reported in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), but their etiology remains still unknown.
"The prevalence estimates vary widely among the different studies and can be affected by concomitant factors such as the overlapping of other possible conditions inducing bone loss as lypodystrophy, advanced HIV-disease, advanced age, low body weight or concomitant use of other drugs," scientists in Italy report.
According to M. Bongiovanni and colleagues at the University of Milan, "All...
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