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Clinical Trial
. 1992;9(3):151-3.
doi: 10.1007/BF02987747.

Short communication: possible activity of beta-carotene in patients with the AIDS related complex. A pilot study

A Bianchi-Santamaria  1 , S Fedeli, L Santamaria
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Clinical Trial

Short communication: possible activity of beta-carotene in patients with the AIDS related complex. A pilot study

A Bianchi-Santamaria et al. Med Oncol Tumor Pharmacother. 1992.

Abstract

In a pilot single blind study, beta-carotene (BC) supplementation produced, in ARC patients under current treatment, apparent recovery from asthenia, fever, nocturnal sweating, diarrhoea, loss in weight, and led as a result to an improvement in general health and working efficiency, but not to an improvement in multiple district lympho-adenopathies. Nevertheless, BC appeared to prevent progress to AIDS and, in addition, to lower the effective dosage of AZT used in one case of ARC developed into AIDS, producing a recovery from opportunistic infections and an inhibition of Kaposi sarcoma diffusion, in line with a two-fold rise in CD4 counts.

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