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• TITLE: Measures of Nutritional Status and Quality of Life in Adult People Living with HIV/AIDS at a Tertiary Hospital in Nigeria

  AUTHORS: O. F. Folasire, A. M. Folasire, R. A. Sanusi

  KEYWORDS: Nutritional Status, Quality of Life, MUST, SGA, HIV/AIDS

  JOURNAL NAME: Food and Nutrition Sciences, Vol.6 No.4, March 23, 2015

  ABSTRACT: Background & Aims: The study investigated the relationship between objective and subjective nutritional status parameters and quality of life in HIV seropositive patients. Methods: Retrospective review of clinic records of 150 HIV seropositive patients at a teaching hospital in Nigeria. Nutritional status was evaluated objectively with anthropometry including body mass index (BMI), subjectively with malnutrition universal screening tool (MUST) and subjective global assessment (SGA) tool. Data on quality of life (QOL) assessed with WHOQOL (Bref), and CD4 count were extracted. Correlation analysis and linear regression were done to investigate the relationship between variables, level of significance set at p