Untreated HIV accelerates the ageing process by up to half a year for every year without antiretroviral treatment, but suppressive antiretroviral treatment stops this accelerated ageing and may even slightly reverse it, according to a Swiss study that tracked markers of ageing that can be read from the bundle of human DNA over 17 years.
The findings, published in the journal Lancet Healthy Longevity, report on markers of epigenetic ageing in people with HIV in the Swiss HIV Cohort.
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