Multivitamin-selenium combo may delay ill health, mortality from AIDS
December 4, 2013 ? A new study co-authored by researchers from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) suggests that a special multivitamin preparation that includes selenium can significantly slow the progression to ill health or death in people with HIV infection.
The study appears in the November 27, 2013 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
?The results are potentially groundbreaking. If we can slow the progression to AIDS with a special multivitamin preparation, it could save a lot of lives for a small price,? said Richard Marlink, executive director of the Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative (HAI) and the Bruce A. Beal, Robert L. Beal, and Alexander S. Beal Professor of the Practice of Public Health at HSPH. ?We now also need to figure out the exact reasons why this preparation works. In doing so, we may learn a lot more as to how to slow HIV?s destruction of patient?s immune systems.?.
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Although Marlink was excited by the results, he noted that multivitamins should never be considered a substitute for ART treatment for individuals with low CD4 counts...
