{"id":3970,"date":"2000-12-17T09:12:45","date_gmt":"2000-12-17T08:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moomango.co.uk\/htb\/?p=3970"},"modified":"2014-07-01T11:14:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T11:14:18","slug":"association-of-vitamin-d-deficiency-with-cervical-squamous-intraepithelial-lesions-in-hiv-infected-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/3970","title":{"rendered":"Association of vitamin A deficiency With cervical squamous intraepithelial lesions in HIV-positive women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Researchers from Rush Medical College and other medical centers evaluated serum retinol concentrations in a group of more than 1,300 women in an effort to find a link between vitamin A deficiency and cervical squamous lesions (SILs) in HIV-positive\u00a0women.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the start, 204 women had vitamin A (retinol) deficiency and 216 had SILs, which were associated with lower retinol concentrations. Women with human papillomavirus showed an association between retinol and cervical lesions. Thus, the researchers concluded, vitamin A deficiency could contribute to cervical lesions in women with HIV.<\/p>\n<p>Journal of Infectious Diseases Online (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/JID\">www.journals.uchicago.edu\/JID<\/a>) (10\/00) Vol. 182, No. 4, P. 1084; French, Audrey L.; Kirstein, Lynn M.; Massad, Stewart; et al.<\/p>\n<p>Source: CDC HIV\/STD\/TB Prevention News Update<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Rush Medical College and other medical centers evaluated serum retinol concentrations in a group of more than 1,300 women in an effort to find a link between vitamin A deficiency and cervical squamous lesions (SILs) in HIV-positive\u00a0women. At &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-womens-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}