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Study Looks At Efficacy, Cardiovascular Risks Of Two HIV Treatments
Patients taking Boehringer Ingelheim"s HIV drug Viramune have a lower risk of developing cardiovascular disease than those taking Bristol-Myers Squibb"s treatment, Reyataz, according to a study released on Monday at the 5th International AIDS Society conference in Cape Town, South Africa, Reuters reports. "The drug trial, involving 569 participants, yielded that Viramune, while being as effective at suppressing HIV as Bristol Myers" blockbuster Reyataz, had a more favourable effect on patients" cardiovascular risks, as measured by certain blood lipids," the article states. The study found that "Viramune-treated patients ò€¦ had more than twice the level of HDL cholesterol, known as "good cholesterol" for its benefitial effect on blood vessels, than those on Reyataz, Boehringer said in a statement," Reuters reports. The article adds that advances in antiretroviral drugs have helped make HIV a "treatable chronic condition," and "as a result, patients are growing older, bringing other symptoms of an HIV infection, such as cardiovascular diseases, to the fore" (Burger, Reuters, 7/20).

University Of Minnesota Research Finds Teens Who Believe They'll Die Young Are More Likely To Engage In Risky Behavior
University of Minnesota Medical School researcher Iris Borowsky, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues found that one in seven adolescents believe that it is highly likely that they will die before age 35, and this belief predicted that the adolescents" would engage in risky behaviors.
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New Risk Factors For Teen Self Harm

A lack of emotional intelligence leads to poor coping strategies and seriously increases the likelihood of self-harm in teenagers, claims a study published yesterday, in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology. The study, carried out by Moira Mikolajczak from the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, K. V. Petrides from the London Psychometric Laboratory at University College London and Jane Hurry from the Institute of Education examined the levels of self harm, emotional intelligence and coping strategies of 490 British secondary school pupils. Dr Petrides said: "People who turn to self harm claim to do so to regulate their emotions, which indicates that they cannot manage their feelings in a healthy way. We wanted to better understand the underlying psychological issues that lead adolescents to harm themselves." Of the 490 students who took part, 132 (27 per cent) reported having deliberately self harmed, either hitting or cutting themselves or taking an overdose of recreational drugs. 65 per cent of self harmers were found to have mild to severe symptoms of depression. "We found that teenagers who self harmed had both significantly lower scores on a measure of emotional intelligence and were more likely to use maladaptive coping strategies such as self criticism or self blame. This suggests that self harm is a desperate attempt to reduce the negative feelings that are worsened by their poor and ineffective emotional coping strategies." "However efficient self harm may be at reducing negative emotions in the short term, this is at the cost of serious physical injury and longer term psychological problems. These findings will help us develop coaching programmes for the treatment of self harm patients that focus on developing both better methods of coping and boosting emotional intelligence." British Psychological Society


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