The interactions between obesity and infectious diseases have recently received increasing
recognition as emerging data have indicated an association between obesity and poor …

Obesity increases morbidity and mortality through its multiple effects on nearly every human
system. However, the various aspects of the association between obesity and infection have …

The proportion of overweight and obese adults in the United States and Canada has
increased over the past decade, but temporal trends in body mass index (BMI) and weight …

Food insecurity, which affects> 1 billion people worldwide, is inextricably linked to the HIV
epidemic. We present a conceptual framework of the multiple pathways through which food …

Since the introduction of combined antiretroviral therapy (cART) and more effective
treatments for AIDS, there has been a dramatic shift from the weight loss and wasting that …

Objective: To determine the association between female genital Schistosoma haematobium
infection and HIV. Design and methods: A cross-sectional study with a 1-year follow-up …

Abstract Background Since December 2019, novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)-induced
pneumonia (COVID-19) occurred in Wuhan, and rapidly spread throughout China. COVID …

Background The success of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has led to dramatic changes in
causes of morbidity and mortality in HIV-infected individuals. As chronic disease rates have …

Background: Food insecurity is increasingly recognized as a barrier to optimal treatment
outcomes, but there is little data on this issue. We assessed associations between food …

Background: Osteopenia has been described in HIV-infected persons, but most studies have
not focused on aging men, have not included an HIV-negative comparison group with …