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| Title |
A retrospective cohort study of body mass index and survival in HIV infected patients with and without TB co-infection
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| Published in |
Infectious Diseases of Poverty, April 2018
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| DOI | 10.1186/s40249-018-0418-3 |
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| Authors |
Kogieleum Naidoo, Nonhlanhla Yende-Zuma, Stanton Augustine |
| Abstract |
High early morbidity and mortality following antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation has been a distinguishing feature of ART programmes in resource limited settings (RLS) compared to high-income countries. This study assessed how well body mass index (BMI: kg/m2) correlated with survival among HIV infected patients with and without TB co-infection. We retrospectively evaluated clinical data from 1000 HIV infected patients, among whom 389 were also co-infected with TB, between January 2008 and December 2010, in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Among 948 patients eligible for analysis, 15.7% (149/948) were underweight (< 18.50), 55.9% (530/948) had normal BMI (≥18.50-24.90), 18.7% (177/948) were overweight (25.00-29.00) and 9.7% (92/948) were obese (≥30.00). Irrespective of TB status, underweight patients, had significantly higher risk of death compared to those with normal BMI at baseline (aHR = 2.9; 95% CI: 1.5-5.7; P = 0.002). Irrespective of TB co-infection, low BMI correlated with mortality in HIV infected patients. UKZN Biomedical Research Ethics Committee Reference number E 248/05, 23 September 2005. |
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| United States | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 85 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Master | 15 | 18% |
| Researcher | 9 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 6 | 7% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 13 | 15% |
| Unknown | 33 | 39% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 26 | 31% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 11% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 5 | 6% |
| Unspecified | 5 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 7 | 8% |
| Unknown | 31 | 36% |