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Abstract
Drug users with HIV infection successfully treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy are now living to older ages. As persons with HIV infection age, they become at risk for comorbidities that occur in any group of aging individuals. However, some of these conditions occur at increased rates, with increasing severity, or pose special problems in older persons with HIV infection. This article discusses the epidemiology of HIV infection in aging drug users, and hormonal, cardiovascular, liver, renal, bone, and cognitive disorders and depression and cancer in these individuals, as well as problems related to taking multiple medications and HIV disease progression.
THE AUTHORS
Robert S. Klein is a graduate of Columbia College (A.B.) and Harvard Medical School (M.D.). He was a resident in internal medicine at the Mount Sinai Medical Center and completed an infectious diseases fellowship at the Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Klein is currently a Professor of medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.