Clinical and contextual determinants of anthropometric failure at baseline and longitudinal improvements after starting antiretroviral treatment among South African children

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1092-1099

  Chhagan, Meera K ^a   Kauchali, Shuaib ^a   Van den Broeck, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Antiretroviral treatment; Children; Cohort; Human immunodeficiency virus

Indexed keywords

EFAVIRENZ; LAMIVUDINE; LOPINAVIR; RITONAVIR; STAVUDINE;

AGE CLASS; ANTHROPOLOGY; BODY MASS; CHILD HEALTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIARRHEAL DISEASE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE TREATMENT; GROWTH RATE; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MEDICINE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; RESPIRATORY DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; COMORBIDITY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SOUTH AFRICA; STUNTING; UNDERWEIGHT; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOUTH AFRICA; THINNESS;

DURBAN; KWAZULU-NATAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 84865549784     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2012.03026.x     Document Type: Article

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