Correlation of Nutrition with Immune Status in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Outpatients.

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Rashmi Thimmapuram, Sree Lanka, and Anthony Esswein, are at the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, Mo. Lawrence Dall, MD, is Professor and Assistant Dean of Medical Student Research at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease at Truman Medical Center, Kansas City, Mo.

Published: April 2020

Malnutrition has been proven to cause poor outcomes in many chronic diseases. We examined the association between malnutrition and immune status in HIV patients. We used the Nutritional Risk Index to evaluate the nutrition in 812 HIV patients, and correlated this variable with viral loads and CD4 counts. We found a significant correlation between nutritional status and immune status.

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