Rising Obesity Prevalence and Weight Gain Among Adults Starting Antiretroviral Therapy in the United States and Canada

R. Koethe, John; A. Jenkins, Cathy; Lau, Bryan; E. Shepherd, Bryan; C. Justice, Amy; P. Tate, Janet; Buchacz, Kate; Napravnik, Sonia; M. Mayor, Ángel; A. Horberg, Michael; J. Blashill, Aaron; L. Willig, Amanda; William Wester, C.; J. Silverberg, Michael; John Gill, M.; E. Thorne, Jennifer; B. Klein, Marina; J. Eron, Joseph; M. Kitahata, Mari; R. Sterling, Timothy; D. Moore, Richard

doi:10.1089/aid.2015.0147

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Rising Obesity Prevalence and Weight Gain Among Adults Starting Antiretroviral Therapy in the United States and Canada

Published in AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses • Sep 9, 2015

Authors:

John R. Koethe

Cathy A. Jenkins

Bryan Lau

Abstract

The proportion of overweight and obese adults in the United States and Canada has increased over the past decade, but temporal trends in body mass index (BMI) and weight gain on antiretroviral therapy (ART) among HIV-infected adults have not been well characterized. We conducted a cohort study compa...

Subject

Overweight

Medicine

Body mass index

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