{"id":292413,"date":"2026-05-14T05:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/292413\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T05:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:56:11","slug":"texas-am-university-children-with-hiv-are-living-longer-but-face-a-rising-obesity-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/292413\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas A&#038;M University: Children with HIV are living longer but face a rising obesity risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas A&amp;M University news release<\/p>\n<p>Advances in HIV treatment have transformed what was once a fatal diagnosis into a manageable chronic condition. Today, children living with HIV are surviving \u2014 and increasingly thriving \u2014 into adolescence and adulthood.<\/p>\n<p>But that success has brought an unexpected and largely overlooked consequence: a rising risk of obesity. This risk is exacerbated by a\u00a0common treatment\u00a0for HIV, which prevents further spread of the virus but can also lead to weight gain.<\/p>\n<p>A new\u00a0study highlights a critical gap in global health research and care. There are currently no evidence-based and clinic-based weight management programs designed specifically for children living with HIV.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full news release <a href=\"https:\/\/stories.tamu.edu\/news\/2026\/05\/13\/children-with-hiv-are-living-longer-but-face-a-rising-obesity-risk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/stories.tamu.edu\/news\/2026\/05\/13\/children-with-hiv-are-living-longer-but-face-a-rising-obesity-risk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Texas A&amp;M University<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas A&amp;M University news release Advances in HIV treatment have transformed what was once a fatal diagnosis into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-292413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}