A study was carried out to
evaluate the effect of smoking on HIV affected patients and it led to the conclusion
that HIV patients who are addicted to smoking are increasingly likely to die
than those who do not smoke.
Marie Helleberg, from the
Department of Infectious Disease at Copenhagen
University Hospital
in Denmark,
headed the study. The results derived from this study highlighted the urgent
requirement of counselling and quit smoking programs to increase the life span
of HIV patients.
The study was undertaken by
observing 2,921 HIV positive patients undergoing antiretroviral therapy and
10,642 non-HIV positive controls for the year 1995-2010. However, the study
results concluded that deaths due to all factors were considerably higher in
smoking addicted individuals than those who were not addicted to smoking. According
to the results obtained from the study, smokers had 3.7 times increased rate of
mortality than non-smokers.
The results of the study appeared
in “Clinical Infectious Diseases.”
According to estimates calculated
from the study, a smoking addicted 35 year old individual suffering from HIV is
likely to live for 62.6 years and the life expectancy of a non-smoking HIV
patient is 78.4 years.
The University
of Copenhagen funded the study.
Source: http://www.dailyrx.com/, Date: 18th December 2012
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