"Nutrition: Key in AIDS Care"

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"Nutrition: Key in AIDS Care"

Washington Post (Health) (09/26/89), P. 8
Rovner, Sandy

Abstract: Malnutrition, rather than AIDS or opportunistic infections, immediately precedes death in as many as 80 percent of AIDS sufferers, according to Donald P. Kotler and C. Wayne Callaway, experts who spoke at a symposium of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Solid nutrition is no cure, they said, but nutritional therapy can improve the quality of life for AIDS patients. Kotler reported that results from his own study are in accord with documentation on slow starvation--solid nutritional therapy can ameliorate neurological problems, irritability, psychomotor disorders, and immunosuppression caused by malnutrition. Earlier this year, a task force on AIDS nutrition issued guidelines for AIDS caregivers and patients on how to prevent the cachexia, or wasting, associated with AIDS. The task force's findings appeared in the journal Nutrition. Copies of a brochure based on the article can be obtained from Wang Associates Inc., 19 W. 21st St., New York, N.Y., 10010.

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