Fact Sheets on Antiretroviral Drugs

<strong>Fact</strong> <strong>Sheets</strong> on Antiretroviral Drugs
not been definitively established, although the risk appears higher in patients receiving
PI than non-PI-containing regimens.
However, a recent study showed that men receiving protease inhibitors had a
higher incidence of osteopenia and osteoporosis according to WHO definitions.
Subjects receiving protease inhibitors had greater central/appendicular adipose tissue
ratios than patients not receiving PIs. Furthermore, osteopenia and osteoporosis are
unique metabolic complications that appear to be independent of adipose tissue
maldistribution.
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