HIV Patients and Weight Loss: Optimizing Care to Improve
Outcomes Faculty: Robert Demling, MD - Chair | Donald Kotler, MD | Christine Wanke, MD CME credit hours: 1.0
HIV Patients and Weight Loss: Optimizing Care to Improve
Outcomes: HIV-associated wasting was first identified by the Centers for Disease Control as an AIDS
defining condition in 1987. With the advent of highly active antiretroviral
therapy, it was hoped that control of viral count would result in the
elimination of wasting as a major sequel of HIV infection. This has turned out
not to be the case. HIV wasting remains a serious, debilitating, and sometimes
life-threatening condition. Care providers need to be vigilant to identify and
properly treat patients who suffer from this disorder. This activity will review the pathogenesis of protein energy
malnutrition in general and its relation to the etiology of HIV-related weight
loss. Additionally, we will discuss the epidemiology of HIV-associated wasting
and the treatment options available.
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