{"id":585520,"date":"2026-08-07T01:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T01:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/585520\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T01:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T01:30:08","slug":"uc-san-francisco-adults-living-with-hiv-are-at-high-risk-for-diabetes-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/585520\/","title":{"rendered":"UC San Francisco: Adults living with HIV are at high risk for diabetes. Here&#8217;s why."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UC San Francisco news release<\/p>\n<p>A new study helps explain why people with HIV remain at elevated risk for type 2 diabetes despite effective suppression of the virus with modern medications.<\/p>\n<p>To investigate it, the team compared blood samples and fat biopsies from 46 people living with well-controlled HIV to those from 74 people without HIV. None of the participants were obese or had diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that the people with HIV had more fibrosis, or scarring, in their fat tissues, and this was associated with insulin resistance \u2014 a key predictor of type 2 diabetes. This fibrosis was obvious in HIV patients no matter their body weight or the specific kinds of HIV medications they were taking.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full news release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1139073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UC San Francisco news release A new study helps explain why people with HIV remain at elevated risk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60],"class_list":["post-585520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}