Older age resulted in a decreasing trend in undernutrition and increasing in excess weight, and these trends were maintained only in women study subjects as reported by Kroll et al .
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Malnutrition and lipid abnormalities in antiretroviral naïve HIV-infected adults in Addis Ababa: A cross-sectional study.
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The reason for the lower prevalence of undernutrition in this ART naïve study population in comparison with those studies in HIV-infected individuals on ART could be that undernourished HIV-infected individuals has suboptimal response to HIV drugs when they start ART at CD4+ T cell count <200 cells/mm 3 or WHO clinical stages III/IV [ 5 , 6 ] so that there may not be significant improvement in their nutritional status.
The serum TC showed an increasing trend in men in comparison to women, along increasing of age, BMI and TG.