Medizinische Universität Graz Austria/Österreich - Forschungsportal - Medical University of Graz
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Zangerle, R; Sarcletti, M; Gallati, H; Reibnegger, G; Wachter, H; Fuchs, D.
Correlation of body mass index with urinary neopterin in individuals infected with human immunodeficiency virus.
Int Arch Allergy Immunol. 1994; 104(2):150-154
Doi: 10.1159/000236723
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- We assessed correlations between body mass index and plasma lipids, immune activation markers and the CD4+ T-cell count. The subjects of this cross-sectional study were randomly selected and comprised all those who attended the AIDS Out-Patient Clinic at the University Hospital in Innsbruck in March and April 1992. Patients with signs and symptoms of acute bacterial and secondary opportunistic infections were excluded. We investigated 63 individuals with HIV infection of whom 35 were asymptomatic, 8 had oral candidiasis, 4 had constitutional signs and symptoms and 16 had AIDS, for an association among body mass index, urinary neopterin, soluble tumor necrosis factor receptors (sTNFRs), plasma lipids, and the numbers of CD4+ T cells. The body mass index correlated inversely with urinary neopterin (rs = -0.42, p = 0.0009) and weakly with the numbers of CD4+ T cells (rs = 0.29, p = 0.02) but not with plasma lipids, sTNFRs and beta 2-microglobulin. The results show that body mass index correlates with immune activation. The data suggest that endogenous formation of interferon-gamma may be an important mediator of wasting in HIV infection, since this cytokine is responsible for the observed elevation of neopterin concentrations in body fluids.
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- Adult -
- Biopterin - analogs and derivatives
- Body Mass Index - analogs and derivatives
- CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes - analogs and derivatives
- Cross-Sectional Studies - analogs and derivatives
- Female - analogs and derivatives
- HIV Infections - immunology
- Humans - immunology
- Interferon Type II - pharmacology
- Male - pharmacology
- Neopterin - pharmacology
- Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha - pharmacology
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- BODY MASS INDEX
- PLASMA LIPIDS
- IMMUNE ACTIVATION
- NEOPTERIN
- HIV