• DOI:10.1590/S0037-86822000000200003
Corpus ID: 35212502

[Iron status, malnutrition and acute phase response in HIV-positive patients].

@article{Monteiro2000IronSM,
  title={[Iron status, malnutrition and acute phase response in HIV-positive patients].},
  author={J. P. Monteiro and D. F. Cunha and S. F. da Cunha and V. D. Dos Santos and M. Silva-Vergara and D. Correia and M. L. Bianchi},
  journal={Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical},
  year={2000},
  volume={33 2},
  pages={
          175-80
        }
}

• J. P. Monteiro, D. F. Cunha, +4 authors M. L. Bianchi
• Published 2000
• Medicine
• Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Nutritional status and some iron metabolism parameters of acute phase response (APR) positive and APR-negative AIDS patients were studied. Twenty-nine AIDS patients were submitted to 24h food intake recall, anthropometry, and albumin, C-reactive protein (CRP), hemoglobin, ferritin, and total iron binding capacity (TIBC) measurements. Infection plus serum CRP > 7 mg/dl were criteria for APR presence. Protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) was ascertained by body mass index (BMI) lower than 18.5 kg/m2… Expand

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