Results from a recent Swiss study indicate that the higher risk of developing lung cancer in people with HIV compared to the general population arises from heavy smoking, not HIV infection.

Based on the results, the study authors recommended implementing strategies to reduce smoking, and therefore lung cancer risk, in HIV-positive adults.

The study authors also speculated that links between lung cancer and HIV or immune deficiency in previous studies were caused by overrepresentation of people with advanced HIV infections in lung cancer studies or accidental inclusion of cancers known…

Results from a recent study indicate that there are high rates of obstructive lung disease in people with HIV, including in individuals with no history of smoking.

Based on their results, the authors of the study suggested that people with HIV be screened regularly for lung disease. They also noted that it is still unknown how lung disease is affected by antiretroviral therapy and HIV progression.

Obstructive lung disease is a group of lung diseases in which one’s airway is blocked. It includes conditions such as asthma, emphysema, bronchitis, and…

Quitting smoking reduces HIV-positive individuals’ likelihood of contracting bacterial pneumonia, a new study has found.

Patients of a group called the ANRS CO3 Aquitaine Cohort who visited participating AIDS clinics in France at least twice between 2000 and 2007 were tracked for the purposes of the study.

Those enrolled in the study did not have bacterial pneumonia at their first visit and researchers had access to participants’ tobacco-consumption status throughout the course of the investigation.

At the conclusion of the study, patients who smoked were more than twice as…