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ArticleHeliyon2022

Dietary diversity and impact of

Aisha Gambo, Nceba Gqaleni, Tesleem K Babalola

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Article in Heliyon, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Effects ofNutrients · 2025
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  2. Effects ofFrontiers in nutrition · 2025
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  3. Research on Moringa (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Aisha GamboDiscipline of Public Health, School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Nceba GqaleniDiscipline of Traditional Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Tesleem K BabalolaProgram in Public Health, Department of Family, Population and Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University, New York, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: To maintain an optimal nutritional status and immunological function in PLHIV, a diet with adequate nutrients is of utmost importance. This is a major challenge among poor populations in developing worlds like Nigeria, where malnutrition and food insecurity are endemic. This study aimed to assess the type of regular diet consumed and assess the impact of supplementation of the diet with Method: A double-blind, randomized trial was conducted. Two hundred consented patients were randomly allocated to either the Results: One hundred and seventy-seven patients completed the six-month follow-up (89 MOG versus 88 COG). At both baseline and sixth month, the foods most commonly consumed by the participants in both MOG and COG were cereals, spices and condiments, oils, fats and palm oil, and dark green vegetables. At baseline, significantly higher consumption of legumes, nuts & seeds (p = 0.001) was observed in the MOG and higher consumption of other vegetables (p = 0.024) in COG. Consumption of cereals, roots, and tubers was significantly higher (p = 0.024; 0.045) in the COG in the sixth month. In both groups, participants were in the medium or low dietary diversity tercile. Throughout the study period, all the nutritional status variables observed were not significantly different between the two study groups [(p > 0.0001); weight; p = 0.5556; BMI; p = 0.5145; MUAC; p = 0.6456]. Over the study period, the treatment by time interaction shows a significant difference in CD4 counts by treatment group (p < 0.0001) and an estimate of fixed effects 10.33 folds greater in the MOG than COG. All tests were conducted at 95CI. Conclusion: This study revealed a poor dietary diversity amongst PLHIV. Supplementation of regular diet with

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Antiretroviral therapyDietary diversityHIVImmune responseMoringa oleifera LamNutritional status

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