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Title: Fewer People With HIV Are Taking Statins in Ill-Advised Medication Combos
Post by: Hep Editors on March 13, 2019, 10:35:30 am

People with HIV are decreasingly taking cholesterol-lowering statins in contraindicated, or ill-advised, combinations with other medications, Reuters Health reports.

Publishing their findings in the Journal of the American Heart Association, researchers studied pharmacy data from the Marketscan database on 186,420 adults with HIV who were treated with antiretrovirals between 2007 and 2015.

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