Body mass index trends and its impact of under and overweight on outcome among PLHIV on antiretroviral treatment in rural Tanzania: A prospective cohort study.

Body mass index trends and its impact of under and overweight on outcome among PLHIV on antiretroviral treatment in rural Tanzania: A prospective cohort study.

<h4>Introduction</h4>Increased body weight is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease and is increasingly reported as a health problem in people living with HIV (PLHIV). There is limited data from rural sub-Saharan Africa, where malnutrition usually presents with both over- a...

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Main Authors: Aneth Vedastus Kalinjuma, Hannah Hussey, Getrud Joseph Mollel, Emilio Letang, Manuel Battegay, Tracy R Glass, Daniel Paris, Fiona Vanobberghen, Maja Weisser, KIULARCO study group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0290445&type=printable

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