{"id":387945,"date":"2026-04-20T00:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/387945\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T00:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:03:08","slug":"hiv-treatment-reduces-accelerated-biological-aging-by-nearly-four-years-landmark-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/387945\/","title":{"rendered":"HIV treatment reduces accelerated biological aging by nearly four years, landmark study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) news release<\/p>\n<p>A major study presented at ESCMID Global 2026 has found that antiretroviral therapy (ART) reduces accelerated biological aging in people with HIV by nearly four years, a finding that could transform how clinicians monitor HIV treatment and long-term health outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers developed a plasma proteomic aging clock \u2014 a tool that estimates biological age, reflecting physiological aging rather than chronological age \u2014 using patterns across hundreds of blood proteins. The model was applied to participants in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis research demonstrates the importance of early start and optimal adherence to ART,\u201d commented lead study author Dr. Barry Ryan, a postdoctoral researcher at EPFL, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full news release <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2026-04-hiv-treatment-biological-aging-years.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) news release A major study presented at ESCMID Global&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[134,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-387945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}