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Pre-ART nutritional status and its association with mortality in adult patients enrolled on ART at Fiche Hospital in North Shoa, Oromia region, Ethiopia: a retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) compromises the nutritional status of infected individuals and in turn, malnutrition worsens the effects of the infection itself by weakening the immune system consequently accelerating disease progression and death. However, few studies have examined t...

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Autores principales: Tesfamariam, Kokeb, Baraki, Negga, Kedir, Haji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5175315/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27998310
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-016-2313-y