ArticleAIDS research and therapy
Nutritional status and its effect on treatment outcome among HIV infected clients receiving HAART in Ethiopia: a cohort study.
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- Effects of undernutrition on mortality and morbidity among adults living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC infectious diseases · 2021Pooled it
- Predictors of nutritional recovery among undernourished adults on antiretroviral therapy treated with ready-to-use therapeutic food at public health facilities in Southeast Ethiopia: a retrospective cohort study.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Prevalence of thyroid dysfunction in highly active antiretroviral therapy -Exposed people living with human immunodeficiency virus.Thyroid research · 2025Article
- Under-nutrition and its associated factors among adult second-line antiretroviral treatment users in Northern Ethiopia.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- Mortality and its association with CD4 cell count and hemoglobin level among children on antiretroviral therapy in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Tropical medicine and health · 2020Article
- Undernutrition Among HIV-Positive Adolescents on Antiretroviral Therapy in Southern Ethiopia.Adolescent health, medicine and therapeutics · 2020Article
- Malnutrition as predictor of survival from anti-retroviral treatment among children living with HIV/AIDS in Southwest Ethiopia: survival analysis.BMC pediatrics · 2019Article
- Food Insecurity, Nutritional Status, and Factors Associated with Malnutrition among People Living with HIV/AIDS Attending Antiretroviral Therapy at Public Health Facilities in West Shewa Zone, Central Ethiopia.BioMed research international · 2018Article
- High magnitude of under nutrition among HIV infected adults who have not started ART in Tanzania--a call to include nutrition care and treatment in the test and treat model.BMC nutrition · 2017Article
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Abstract
purposesThe aim of this study was to determine the effects of nutritional status at the start of highly active anti-retroviral therapy on treatment outcomes among HIV/AIDS patients taking HAART at Jimma University Specialized Hospital.
methodsWe performed a retrospective cohort study involving 340 adults who started highly active anti-retroviral therapy. The patients have been clinically followed for 2 years. Data were extracted from paper based medical charts by trained data collectors from January 30 to February 28, 2014 using data collection format. We entered data into Epi data version 3.1 and then exported to SPSS for windows version 21. Predictors of CD4 change were identified using multivariable linear regression model. Time to an event (death) was estimated by Kaplan-Meier and predictors of mortality were identified by Cox proportional hazard model.
resultsOut of 340 patients, 42 patients died during the follow-up. Twenty-five (59.5 %) deaths were from malnourished group. Age, baseline CD4, sex, baseline HAART and marital status were significant predictors of immunologic recovery at different time points. Malnutrition was associated with lower CD4 recovery and greater hazard of death.
conclusionsMalnutrition tends to decrease CD4 recovery and predisposes patient to early death.
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