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When treated with AZT, 33 percent of these asymptomatic patients suffer severe and possibly life-threatening side effects, said study co-author Marcia A. Testa, lecturer on biostatistics at the School of Public Health...
...hoped to see whether quality-of-life considerations would modify the decision to start taking AZT for asymptomatic patients," said William R. Lenderking, research associate in biostatistics at the School of Public Health and lead author of the study...
...investigators reanalyzed the same data that originally established the effectiveness of AZT in delaying the progression of AIDS...
Recent studies have confirmed that AZT does not actually add length to the life of asymptomatic patients, but may postpone the onset of the disease for a small amount of time, Testa said...
...give AZT early on," said Testa, "people become resistant and you can't give it later on (when the patient has developed serious AIDS-related symptoms...