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Causes of weight loss in human immunodeficiency virus infection
C D Summerbell1, J P Perrett, B G Gazzard
1Department of Human Nutrition, St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, London, UK.
Abstract:
The medical records of all 420 patients attending an outpatient clinic between June 1990 and June 1991 were retrospectively reviewed for causes of weight loss. Of the 121 (29%) patients who had lost weight, the majority had a clear contributing cause; opportunistic infections (n = 57), psychosocial factors (n = 20), drug related problems (n = 9). Unexplained weight loss (n = 35) was more likely to have occurred in those patients with a better preserved immune system and most of these had symptoms suggestive of an unconfirmed infection or had local oral lesions associated with a loss of appetite. Unexplained weight loss associated with HIV infection is uncommon.
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