Skiing Prolongs Life.
Hitting the slopes soon? A unexplored writing-room suggests that's a good idea, because skiing and snowboarding holidays can boost your overall happiness. Researchers surveyed 279 visitors at three principal ski resorts in South Korea. Of those people, 126 were skiers, 112 were snowboarders and 41 did both. Participants worn out an mean of 4,5 days at a resort, and 90 percent visited ski resorts less than five times a season.
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Antiretroviral Therapy Works, And HIV-Infected People Live Long
Antiretroviral Therapy Works, And HIV-Infected People Live Long.
Better treatments are extending the lives of masses with HIV, but aging with the AIDS-causing virus takes a striking that will test the health care system, a new report says. A survey of about 1000 HIV-positive men and women ages 50 and older living in New York City found more than half had symptoms of depression, a much higher price than others their majority without HIV.
And 91 percent also had other lasting medical conditions, such as arthritis (31 percent), hepatitis (31 percent), neuropathy (30 percent) and great in extent blood pressure (27 percent). About 77 percent had two or more other conditions. About half had progressed to AIDS before they got the HIV diagnosis, the appear found. "The agreeable news is antiretroviral therapies are working and people are living.
If all goes well, they will have individual expectancies similar to those without HIV," said Daniel Tietz, executive director of the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America. "But a 55-year-old with HIV tends to appearance like a 70-year-old without HIV in terms of the other conditions they basic treatment for," he said Wednesday at a meeting of the Office of National AIDS Policy at the White House in Washington, DC.
The scrutinization included interviews with 640 men, 264 women and 10 transgender people. Dozens of experts on HIV and aging attended the meeting, which was intended to home the needs of older adults with HIV and to look into ways to fix up services to them. Currently, about 27 percent of those with HIV are over 50. By 2015, more than half will be, said the report.
Because of their dearest needs, this poses challenges for conspicuous health systems and organizations that serve seniors and people with HIV, Tietz said. HIV can be isolating, Tietz said. Seventy percent of older Americans with HIV room alone, more than twice the reprimand of others their age, while about 15 percent live with a partner, according to the report.
Better treatments are extending the lives of masses with HIV, but aging with the AIDS-causing virus takes a striking that will test the health care system, a new report says. A survey of about 1000 HIV-positive men and women ages 50 and older living in New York City found more than half had symptoms of depression, a much higher price than others their majority without HIV.
And 91 percent also had other lasting medical conditions, such as arthritis (31 percent), hepatitis (31 percent), neuropathy (30 percent) and great in extent blood pressure (27 percent). About 77 percent had two or more other conditions. About half had progressed to AIDS before they got the HIV diagnosis, the appear found. "The agreeable news is antiretroviral therapies are working and people are living.
If all goes well, they will have individual expectancies similar to those without HIV," said Daniel Tietz, executive director of the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America. "But a 55-year-old with HIV tends to appearance like a 70-year-old without HIV in terms of the other conditions they basic treatment for," he said Wednesday at a meeting of the Office of National AIDS Policy at the White House in Washington, DC.
The scrutinization included interviews with 640 men, 264 women and 10 transgender people. Dozens of experts on HIV and aging attended the meeting, which was intended to home the needs of older adults with HIV and to look into ways to fix up services to them. Currently, about 27 percent of those with HIV are over 50. By 2015, more than half will be, said the report.
Because of their dearest needs, this poses challenges for conspicuous health systems and organizations that serve seniors and people with HIV, Tietz said. HIV can be isolating, Tietz said. Seventy percent of older Americans with HIV room alone, more than twice the reprimand of others their age, while about 15 percent live with a partner, according to the report.
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