Pages tagged with "HIV"

54 pages, most important first (overviews, then meta-analyses, then RCTs, then newest). Combine with another topic

• Overview HIV and vitamin D
• Enveloped virus infection (RSV, coronavirus, HIV, etc.) 1.5X more likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor – meta-analysis
• Treatment of HIV in youths helped by 7,000 IU of vitamin D for 1 year – RCT
• HIV not helped by 2,000 IU of Vitamin D (no surprise) – RCT
• Pregnant women in HIV therapy adding Vitamin D had 3X fewer deaths - RCT
• HIV patients helped by monthly 120,000 IU of Vitamin D – RCT
• 7000 IU of vitamin D restored most HIV youths to above 32 ng - RCT
• Vitamin D and viral infection: what 164 studies do and do not show - review
• HIV associated with low vitamin D and high C-reactive protein
• Off topic: HIV drug developed and patented by US govt costs 1780 dollars but only 8 in Australia
• Medicare paid $1 B to $18 B for each of these drugs (Vitamin D helps fight most of the health problems)
• Immune System Amnesia - following Measles, severe Influenza, HIV, COVID, etc,
• Glutathione fights: Diabetes, Alz, PD, NAFLD, Kidney, UC, IBD, HIV, Fatigue, etc,
• Liposomal Gluthathione proven to fight T2D, Oxidative Stress, NAFLD, RA,  HIV, PD, Autism, RSV, etc
• HIV pregnancy often results in HIV infant unless expensive ART therapy or Vitamin D
• HIV
• HIV patients got to 28 ng by monthly 50,000 IU of Vitamin D
• HIV treatment augmented by high-dose vitamin D, daily or weekly
• HIV patients with low Vitamin A were 3.6 X more likely to get Tuberculosis
• Mass disabling events: Polio, WWII, HIV, and COVID Long-Haul
• HIV vaccine effectivity perhaps increased and side effects reduced if higher Vitamin D
• Osteoporosis risk due to HIV gut and HIV drugs (gut-friendly Vit D can help)
• HIV, TB, Malaria more important than COVID to lower Africa
• Did HIV help Omicron evolve
• Low vitamin D increases the risk of hepatitis, influenza, Covid-19, AIDS and other viral diseases
• Use of Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (Hepatitis-B, AIDS) requires more vitamin D
• Those with HIV who doubled their vitamin D levels reduced their chance of death by 47 percent
• Vertebral fractures 9X more likely in HIV patients having low vitamin D
• Cognitive problems 2X more likely if HIV and low vitamin D
• After HIV infection, Vitamin D levels drop for years (not a surprise)
• Low vitamin D with HIV increases risk of infections – TB by 3.5X, CMV by 10.1X
• Infant HIV, Malaria, and high vitamin D
• HIV therapy reduces Vitamin D levels, supplementation helps
• Children in Uganda have low vitamin D, and lower still if severe malaria
• Immunity increased by Vitamin D via cells and genes (HIV etc.)
• HIV patients had bone loss and less than 20 ng of vitamin D
• HIV leads to low vitamin D which leads to osteoporosis – a growing problem
• HIV – lower vitamin D if Black, higher if PI monotherapy
• 200,000 IU restored levels in HIV children having low vitamin D
• HIV – recommend 100,000 IU vitamin D monthly to get levels 30 ng
• Vitamin D levels of HIV and non HIV equally restored with 50,000 IU twice a week
• 8 times less bacteria in blood of HIV patients if Vitamin D levels greater than 30 ng
• Coronary artery calcification associated with low vitamin D
• Animal study: vitamin D as an adjunct therapy for the treatment of Pneumocystis pneumonia
• Cats with feline HIV and hospitalized cats have low levels of vitamin D
• HIV children in UK – Vitamin D recommendations
• TB lowers vitamin D, then HIV lowers it even more - 2014
• 1700 IU daily average restored HIV vitamin D levels (50000 monthly)
• HIV increases Calcium in soft tissues and reduces Calcium in bones
• HIV inflammation markers associated with vitamin D less than 10 ng
• HIV interactions with low Vitamin D
• Vitamin D deficiency in HIV-infected and un-infected women in the US
• Blacks with HIV were 3.5X more likely to be vitamin D deficient than whites
• HIV patients having EFC therapy were 3X more likely to have low vitamin D levels