Open AccessNutritional Status and Quality of Life in HIV-infected patients
Author(s) -
Barbara Fernandes de Carvalho,
Sara Policarpo,
Ana Catarina Moreira
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
nutrición hospitalaria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.31
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1699-5198
pISSN - 0212-1611
DOI - 10.20960/nh.453
Subject(s) - medicine , anthropometry , quality of life (healthcare) , confounding , waist , multivariate analysis , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , population , body mass index , gerontology , environmental health , immunology , nursing
Nutritional status and the progression of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are interlinked; though some studies have looked at the impact nutritional status has on quality of life (QoL) in patients with chronic diseases, few have studied this in HIV-infected individuals.