title: Manaing HIV. Part 5: Treating secondary outcomes. 5.17 HIV, weight loss and wasting syndrome.
abstract: Weight loss in HIV infection can be severe and distressing. Management must address the likely combination of causes by excluding opportunistic infection, monitoring drug effects, palliating diarrhoea, supporting a healthy diet and using drug therapy to improve appetite or weight gain.
authors.affiliation: Inflammation Research Unit, School of Pathology, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Kelly
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Lloyd
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Kemp
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D001835:Body Weight; D002100:Cachexia / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy* / Q000821:virology; D006801:Humans