Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Body image in women with HIV: a cross-sectional evaluation. | AIDS Research and Therapy BioMed Central Research Body image in women with HIV a cross-sectional evaluation Jeannie S Huang 1 2 Shawn Harrity3 Daniel Lee3 Karen Becerra1 Rosanne Santos1 and W Christopher Mathews3 Open Access Address Department of Pediatrics University of California San Diego California USA 2Children s Hospital San Diego California USA and 3Department of Medicine University of California San Diego California USA Email Jeannie S Huang - jshuang@ Shawn Harrity - sharrity@ Daniel Lee - dalee@ Karen Becerra - kbecerra@ Rosanne Santos - rtsantos@ W Christopher Mathews - cmathews@ Corresponding author Published 06 July 2006 Received 13 April 2006 AIDS Research and Therapy 2006 3 17 doi 1742-6405-3-17 Accepted 06 July 2006 This article is available from http content 3 1 17 2006 Huang et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background HIV lipodystrophy syndrome is a recognized complication of potent antiretroviral therapy and is characterized by often dramatic changes in various body fat stores both central and peripheral. Given prior findings of heightened body image dysphoria among HIV-infected men with lipodystrophy as compared to HIV-infected men without lipodystrophy we sought to determine body image among HIV-infected and HIV-negative women and to determine the relationship of HIV and lipodystrophy with body image. Our a priori hypothesis was that women with HIV and lipodystrophy would have significantly poorer body image as compared to women without HIV and to women with HIV without lipodystrophy. Results 116 women responded to two previously validated self-report instruments Body Image Quality of .
