HIT Consultant November 22, 2024
What You Should Know:
– Two new National Institutes of Health grants, totaling $5.7 million, are aimed at helping scientists at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University better understand the mechanisms of two cardiovascular complications associated with HIV.
– Thanks to the advent of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART), which uses a combination of three or more drugs to stop the virus from replicating in the body, life expectancy of people living with HIV has dramatically increased. In fact, most people living with HIV no longer die from the opportunistic disease but instead from cardiovascular disease.
NIH Grants Advance Understanding of HIV-Associated Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Complications
Researchers at the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) are making significant...