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Assessment of Child Anthropometry in a Large Epidemiologic Study
Published on: February 2, 2017
Anthropometrics and examiner-reported body habitus abnormalities in the multicenter AIDS cohort study
Frank J Palella1, Stephen R Cole, Joan S Chmiel
1Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Div. of Infectious Diseases, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA. f-palella@northwestern.edu
Abstract:
We undertook anthropometric assessments of 530 HIV-seropositive and 314 HIV-seronegative men in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study at a regular visit that occurred between 1 April and 30 September 1999. We found anthropomorphic differences that were independent of age: the 384 seropositive men receiving HAART had diminished body size and higher frequency and severity of body habitus abnormalities, particularly lipoatrophy, compared with the 314 seronegative men.
