Macronutrient supplementation to HIV and TB patients during treatment

TY - CHAP

T1 - Macronutrient supplementation to HIV and TB patients during treatment

AU - Friis, Henrik

AU - Olsen, Mette Frahm

AU - Filteau, Suzanne

N1 - CURIS 2018 NEXS 169

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - In low-income countries, undernutrition and infectious diseases are major health problems. Their coexistence is partly due to poverty being an important determinant of both problems, but also due to the two-way causal interactions between nutritional deciencies and infections, whereby infections exacerbate nutritional deciencies, which in turn increase infectious disease morbidity and mortality. Most research has been conducted on the relationship between generalized malnutrition or micronutrient deciencies and childhood infections. Control of infectious diseases is now considered important in prevention of undernutrition, and evidence-based nutritional interventions have been established to reduce childhood morbidity and mortality.

AB - In low-income countries, undernutrition and infectious diseases are major health problems. Their coexistence is partly due to poverty being an important determinant of both problems, but also due to the two-way causal interactions between nutritional deciencies and infections, whereby infections exacerbate nutritional deciencies, which in turn increase infectious disease morbidity and mortality. Most research has been conducted on the relationship between generalized malnutrition or micronutrient deciencies and childhood infections. Control of infectious diseases is now considered important in prevention of undernutrition, and evidence-based nutritional interventions have been established to reduce childhood morbidity and mortality.

U2 - 10.1201/9781351058193-9

DO - 10.1201/9781351058193-9

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 9781466585812

SP - 307

EP - 317

BT - Nutrition and HIV

A2 - Mehta, Saurabh

A2 - Finkelstein, Julia L

PB - CRC Press

CY - Boca Raton, FL

ER -