Question

1.) Which HIV/AIDS treatment, when used for an extended time, is associated with an increased risk of development of type 2 diabetes, kidney disease, and osteoporosis and with increases in central adiposity?

   a.   highly active antiretroviral therapy

   b.   protease inhibitors

   c.   integrase inhibitors

   d.   nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors

2.) For which of the following conditions would corticosteroids be a likely treatment?

   a.   hemophilia

   b.   rheumatoid arthritis

   c.   chronic fatigue syndrome

   d.   HIV/AIDS

Answer 1

Answer q 1

Highly active antiretroviral thrapy

Reason----- Highly active antiretroviral therapy is a combination of three or more HIV supressing drugs. it help to improve the immunological status and making HIV /AIDS as a managable illness. The HAART drug class include protease inhibitors, integrace inhibitors and neucleo reverse transcriptase inhibitors, fusion inhibitors etc. each drugs class has side effects.antiretroviral therapy has a profound effect on a the skeleton leads to osteoporosis. moreover it affect the metabolism cause development  of type 2 diabetes and kidney disease.

Answer q 2

( b )

Rheumatoid arthritis

Reason---- corticosteroids are used in rheumatoid arthritis patient to reduce inflammation and pain .it also act as an immune system inhibitors by supressing antibody formation.