TABLE III.

Baseline Nutritional Assessment of Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection ^legend

Anthropometry

Height, sex, present weight (% of ideal body weight and % of usual body weight)

Premorbid or usual body weight (% of ideal body weight)

Ideal body weight

Weight loss (% of ideal body weight), duration (months) of weight loss

Biochemical

Serum albumin, cholesterol, triacylglycerols

Immune/HIV-related status

CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, white blood cell count, hematocrit, hemoglobin

^legend(Modified from Bell SJ, et al., Nutrition support and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Parasitology 1993;107:553.)