ART slows accelerated aging among people with HIV

Summary: Scientists have found that untreated HIV can make a person's body age about 10 years faster than normal. But there is good news! A treatment called ART (antiretroviral therapy) can actually slow down and even reverse this fast aging. By looking at specific proteins in the blood, researchers saw that patients taking ART got about 3.7 "biological years" younger after just a year and a half of treatment. The longer they stay on the medicine, the closer their body's age gets to their actual age. This shows that ART does more than just control the virus; it helps stop the hidden inflammation that causes early aging.

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