Biologic aging, frailty, and age-related disease in chronic HIV infection.

@article{Brothers2014BiologicAF,
  title={Biologic aging, frailty, and age-related disease in chronic HIV infection.},
  author={Thomas D Brothers and Kenneth Rockwood},
  journal={Current opinion in HIV and AIDS},
  year={2014},
  volume={9 4},
  pages={
          412-8
        }
}
PURPOSE OF REVIEW Effective therapies have transformed HIV infection into a chronic disease, and new problems are arising related to aging. This article reviews the aging process, age-related deficit accumulation and frailty, and how these might be affected by chronic HIV infection. RECENT FINDINGS Aging is characterized by acceleration in the rate of unrepaired physiologic damage an organism accumulates. HIV infection is associated with many factors that might affect the aging process… 
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