Several Boston-area doctors will serve as primary investigators in a worldwide study on heart disease among HIV/AIDS patients — just one deadly upshot of an illness that, researchers say, has received meager federal funding in recent years.
“As the rates of regular HIV-related complications are declining, there are other stubborn problems that are persisting,” said Dr. Steven Grinspoon, an endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and a principal investigator in the study. “Patients may seem to be asymptomatic, but brewing beneath the surface are all these complications.”
Lindsay Kalter
bostonherald.com
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