Lipodystrophy is a disease that causes people to suffer from an uncontrolled loss of adipose tissue, which was a rare disease of premature aging.
Lipodystrophy is a disease characterized by an uncontrolled loss of adipose tissue, which makes patients look aged and causes severe metabolic alterations.
The symptoms of lipodystrophy can be divided into the physical changes involved and their metabolic changes.
The causes of lipodystrophy can be several:
- Genetics: there is a group of syndromes that are characterized by the appearance of lipodystrophy in very early ages of life (around 15 years in most cases). Women are affected four times more than men.
- HIV: probably the most commonly thought cause of lipodystrophy.
- Insulin injections: Repeated injections of insulin in diabetic people produce local lipodystrophy at the site of the puncture, usually abdominal fat.
Some basic general measures for the prevention of lipodystrophy are:
- Eat a healthy diet, rich in vitamins, vegetables and unsaturated fatty acids. Avoiding animal fats or industrial fats is essential so as not to increase the deposit of adipose tissue in inappropriate places. The consumption of omega 3 fatty acids, which are found in blue fish especially, can be very beneficial to reduce cardiovascular risk.
- Playing sports or doing physical exercise helps to renew the deposit of body fat, preventing them from accumulating chronically. In addition, it lowers cholesterol, triglycerides and blood sugar levels.
- Avoid anti-retroviral drugs that are associated with lipodystrophy. The doctor should always be consulted to make any medication changes. The specialist doctor can decide which drugs are suitable and which ones are not. Do not forget that antiretrovirals are tremendously effective and have helped the HIV epidemic is controlled and does not involve death within a few years of infection.
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