Maternal nutritional status predicts adverse birth outcomes among HIV-infected rural Ugandan women receiving combination antiretroviral therapy.

Maternal nutritional status predicts adverse birth outcomes among HIV-infected rural Ugandan women receiving combination antiretroviral therapy.

Maternal nutritional status is an important predictor of birth outcomes, yet little is known about the nutritional status of HIV-infected pregnant women treated with combination antiretroviral therapy (cART). We therefore examined the relationship between maternal BMI at study enrollment, gestationa...

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Main Authors: Sera Young, Katherine Murray, Julia Mwesigwa, Paul Natureeba, Beth Osterbauer, Jane Achan, Emmanuel Arinaitwe, Tamara Clark, Veronica Ades, Albert Plenty, Edwin Charlebois, Theodore Ruel, Moses Kamya, Diane Havlir, Deborah Cohan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3413694?pdf=render

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