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Antiretroviral Treatment Improves Neurocognitive Function In Women

Published in Women's Health Weekly, April 19th, 2001

by Michael Greer, staff medical writer - Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) can prevent HIV related cognitive impairment in women, suggest new study results.

R.A. Cohen and colleagues at Brown University, Rhode Island, evaluated the neurocognitive function of severely immune-impaired HIV+ women treated with HAART compared with untreated women.

They found that women treated with a HAART regimen had significantly enhanced neurocognitive function compared with their untreated counterparts, and that functional improvements increased with the length of HAART treatment.

For women with immune CD4 cell counts reduced...

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