Special coverage of the 43rd IDSA meeting. Study finds negative impact of smoking on HIV infection and immune activation.
Research dating from the late 1990's has found that abnormal immune activation can lead to lipodystrophy syndrome, which now is broken down to lipoatrophy and lipohypertrophy, an investigator says.
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