Wasting

Christopher J. Hoffmann, M.D., M.P.H.

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CLINICAL

Wasting: Unintentional weight loss >10%; may also be defined by unintentional weight loss >5% over 3 months or a BMI < 18.5.
Wasting syndrome: Unintentional weight loss >10% plus diarrhea or chronic weakness and documented fever for ≥30 days.
Wasting syndrome is an AIDS-defining condition (category C); wasting is evidence of symptomatic HIV infection (category B).
Seen during critical illness and hospitalization, may prolong convalescence.
Likely multifactorial related to a proinflammatory state (with potential associated anorexia), hypogonadism, and malabsorption.
Must be differentiated from lipoatrophy, which is isolated fat loss (see Lipodystrophy). Wasting/weight loss is consequence of AIDS disease progression and OIs, while lipoatrophy often seen in pts on some less-used ART regimens.

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CLINICAL

Wasting: Unintentional weight loss >10%; may also be defined by unintentional weight loss >5% over 3 months or a BMI < 18.5.
Wasting syndrome: Unintentional weight loss >10% plus diarrhea or chronic weakness and documented fever for ≥30 days.
Wasting syndrome is an AIDS-defining condition (category C); wasting is evidence of symptomatic HIV infection (category B).
Seen during critical illness and hospitalization, may prolong convalescence.
Likely multifactorial related to a proinflammatory state (with potential associated anorexia), hypogonadism, and malabsorption.
Must be differentiated from lipoatrophy, which is isolated fat loss (see Lipodystrophy). Wasting/weight loss is consequence of AIDS disease progression and OIs, while lipoatrophy often seen in pts on some less-used ART regimens.

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