Abstract:
:AIDS patients (2 groups) had a blood deficiency (p less than 0.001) of coenzyme Q10 vs. 2 control groups. AIDS patients had a greater deficiency (p less than 0.01) than ARC patients. ARC patients had a deficiency (p less than 0.05) vs. control. HIV-infected patients had a deficiency (p less than 0.05) vs. control. The deficiency of CoQ10 increased with the increased severity of the disease, i.e., from HIV positive (no symptoms) to ARC (constitutional symptoms, no opportunistic infection or tumor) to AIDS (HIV infection, opportunistic infection and/or tumor). This deficiency, a decade of data on CoQ10 on the immune system, on IgG levels, on hematological activity constituted the rationale for treatment with CoQ10 of 7 patients with AIDS or ARC. One was lost to follow-up; one expired after stopping CoQ10; 5 survived, were symptomatically improved with no opportunistic infection after 4-7 months. In spite of poor compliance of 5/7 patients, the treatment was very encouraging and at times even striking.
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Biochem Biophys Res Communjournal_title
Biochemical and biophysical research communicationsauthors
Folkers K,Langsjoen P,Nara Y,Muratsu K,Komorowski J,Richardson PC,Smith THdoi
10.1016/s0006-291x(88)81179-3subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1988-06-16 00:00:00pages
888-96issue
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0006-291Xissn
1090-2104pii
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153pub_type
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