Document 1031
 DOCN  M94A1031
 TI    Nutritional status of HIV nonvertically infected children.
 DT    9412
 AU    Strauss I; Marin C; Marcu M; Colentina Hospital Bucharest, Romania.
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(2):224 (abstract no. PB0911). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94371544
 AB    OBJECTIVE: To assess the nutritional status of HIV nonvertically
       infected children and the relation with disease stages. METHODS:
       Patients were 90 boys nonvertically infected with HIV. Assessment of
       nutritional status was made using measurements of head circumference,
       weight, length and reporting them to growth charts. RESULTS: Half of
       children were coming from orphanges and half from families. There were
       no statistic differences in the structure by age of children from these
       two groups. In 1990, 90% of children from orphanages and only 25% of
       children from families had protein energy malnutrition (PEM).
       CONCLUSIONS: Children from orphanages had PEM due to inadequate dietary
       intake. This modified the natural course of HIV infection. PEM produced
       in these children an acquired immunodeficiency syndrome similar to AIDS.
       In children coming from families, the onset of symptomatic infection was
       later than in children from orphanages. Weight loss of children from
       families was associated with progression of HIV infection.
 DE    Child  Human  HIV Infections/*COMPLICATIONS  Male  *Nutritional Status
       Protein-Energy Malnutrition/COMPLICATIONS  MEETING ABSTRACT

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