European Medical Journal news story
People with HIV now live far longer thanks to effective treatment, but ageing brings new challenges, including frailty in people with HIV and a higher risk of falls. Frailty is a syndrome of reduced strength, endurance, and physiological reserve that leaves older adults more vulnerable to illness, disability, and injury; prefrailty is an earlier, milder stage on the same spectrum.
Using a decision analytic model called the Frailty Policy Model, researchers simulated adults aged 40 years and over with HIV and viral suppression in the USA, reflecting an estimated 522,000 people. On average, these individuals were 56 years old, 25% were women, and nearly half were already in a prefrail or frail state. The model projected a remaining life expectancy of just over 20 years, with around 12 of those years spent living with prefrailty or frailty and roughly 10 falls per person over a lifetime.
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Source : European Medical Journal
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