More than one million
people die
from AIDS each year — an enormous number, but one that has decreased steadily throughout the past decade thanks in large part
to anti-retroviral medicines that can slow its
spread within the body.
Some alleles corresponded
to higher levels of IL - 1ß, and
people with these versions of the genes were five times more likely
to suffer
from stomach cancer — perhaps because a surplus of IL - 1ß, by shutting down acid production and sustaining an inflammation of the infected areas, allows H. pylori
to spread further
within the stomach, the authors speculate.