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HIV Drug Dolutegravir Can Increase Your Blood Pressure, Effect Your Heart: Warn Experts

HIV drugs called dolutegravir (DTG) are at higher risk of developing high blood pressure (high BP). It was in the year 2019 when the World Health Organisation (WHO) formally recommended the drug dolutegravir (DTG) as the most preferred antiretroviral therapy (ART) for those people who are suffering, or living with HIV, especially in middle-income countries. The global health body cited that this drug is more effective, less costly, and less prone t developing drug resistance than the previously recommended treatment options for HIV. In a recent study, published in the journal eClinicalMedicine, the experts have confirmed these findings about DTG and weight gain, and it also found that people living with HIV who take DTG may also have a higher risk of developing high blood pressure. High blood pressure is a condition that increases the force of your blood pushing against the walls of your blood vessels. High BP can increase a person's chance of suffering stroke, vision loss, heart attack, heart failure, and kidney disease. Stem-Cell Therapy Cures HIV Positive Man In Delhi In yet another medical achievement, a 53-year-old HIV-positive man became the third person ever to be completely cured of the HIV virus by a stem cell transplant, also called a bone marrow transplant, received to treat his blood cancer. COVID Fear: Woman Locks Self, Son In House of 3 Years To Stay Safe From Coronavirus The fear of catching COVID-19 left a woman locking self and her son in their house for almost three years due to the fear of getting infected with Covid-19. The virus first appeared in the year 2019 and has so far claimed several lives, globally.

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