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HIV shown to increase the risk of fracture
According to an American study, infection with HIV appears to lead to an increase of between 200% and 360% in fracture risk compared with the population in general of comparable age.
From 2000 to 2006, researchers compared the incidence of fractures in seropositive HIV patients and seronegative individuals. The results are quite clear. The number of fractures was between 2% and 3.69% greater in the first of these groups.
A number of risk factors such as age, psychoactive substance abuse, co-infection with the hepatitis C virus and diabetes have been associated with the increased risk of fracture in seropositive patients. And for the first time, a link has been established between this risk and the CD 4 lymphocyte count. These cells are essential to the correct functioning of the immune system and HIV attacks them specifically.
“Our results should lead the medical community to issue monitoring recommendations that focus specifically on the risk factors associated with fractures”, the principal author of the report concludes.
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