An analysis involving almost 40,000 people living with HIV in the United States has found that women are significantly more likely to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes than both their male and HIV-negative counterparts.
Dr Morgan Birabaharan and colleagues at the University of California analysed a huge observational patient record database that contained anonymised information from over 300 hospital sites in the US in order to establish a relationship between HIV, gender and type 2 diabetes. Findings are published in AIDS.
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Source : Aidsmap
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