HIV nutrition papers published.More than 50 medical experts and five U.s. government agencies worked together to produce a series of papers on integrating nutrition with HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. medicine.' These papers, addressed mainly to medical professionals, review "general nutritional management, evaluation and intervention for wasting, insulin resistance, fat redistribution, dyslipidemia, lactic acidosis, food safety, and bone abnormalities" (from the introduction). They summarize nutrition doctors should know about when treating HIV disease. The titles of the articles are: * Introduction: Integrating Nutrition Therapy into Medical Management of Human Immunodeficiency Virus human immunodeficiency virus n. HIV. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) A transmissible retrovirus that causes AIDS in humans. (introduction by John G. Bartlett) * General Nutrition Management in Patients Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus * Assessment of Nutritional Status, Body Composition, and Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Associated Morphologic Changes * Weight Loss and Wasting in Patients Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus * Lipid Abnormalities * Body Habitus habitus /hab·i·tus/ (hab´i-tus) [L.] 1. attitude (2). 2. physique. hab·i·tus n. pl. Changes Related to Lipodystrophy * Insulin and Carbohydrate Dysregulation * Lactic lactic /lac·tic/ (lak´tik) pertaining to milk. lac·tic adj. Of, relating to, or derived from milk. lactic pertaining to milk. Acidemia acidemia /ac·i·de·mia/ (as?i-de´me-ah) increased acidity of the blood. For those characterized by increased concentration of a specific acid, see at the acid. in Infection with Human Immunodeficiency Virus * Emerging Bone Problems in Patients Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus * Food and Water Safety for Persons Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus References Integrating nutrition therapy into medical management of human immunodeficiency virus (series of articles). Clinical Infectious Diseases Clinical Infectious Diseases in an academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press which publishes articles on the pathogenesis, clinical investigation, medical microbiology, diagnosis, immune mechanisms, and treatment of diseases caused by infectious agents. . April 1, 2003; vol. 36, supplement 2. The articles are available to the public at: htip://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CID/journal/contents/v36nS2.html |
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