HIV/AIDS

Data on HIV/AIDS published by T.T. Brown and colleagues

Published in AIDS Weekly, April 26th, 2010

Researchers in the United States conducted a study "To evaluate the relationship between regional body composition and liver disease (fibrosis or steatosis) in HIV/HCV co-infected individuals. Whole body dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) was performed in 173 HIV/HCV co-infected persons within 12 months of a liver biopsy."

"Significant fibrosis was defined as a METAVIR stage greater than 1. Steatosis was graded as: 0, none; 1, steatosis involving less than 5% of hepatocytes; 2, 5-29%; 3, 30-60%; 4 greater than 60%, and was defined as more than 0. Poisson regression with robust variance was used to estimate prevalence ratios of the outcome measures. The population...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2010-04-26)

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