title: New therapy strategies focusing on long term. Drugs' impact on heart is debated.
abstract: As new antiretroviral drugs near FDA approval, treatment strategies are focusing more intensely on the long-term benefits and risks of treatment as patients live longer and face new health problems. Long-term side effects were on the minds of many researchers, especially the impact of antiretroviral drugs (particularly protease inhibitors) on cardiovascular disease.
mesh_terms: D023241:Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced*; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans