A major nutrition goal in end-stage HIV is to:

a. prevent malnutrition

b. promote positive nitrogen balance

c. increase vitamin/mineral supplementation above DRI

d. encourage parenteral nutrition support -

a. prevent malnutrition

Explanation:

AIDS patients can lose weight quickly. Chronic weight loss is associated with hypermetabolism and malabsorption that, in general, in individuals with this type of infection.

For this reason, one of the main nutritional goals in the final stage of HIV is to prevent malnutrition.

This is because a degree of nutrition adequate to the individual needs of people infected with AIDS contributes to increased levels of CD4 T lymphocytes, improves intestinal absorption, decreases the worsening of diarrhea, muscle wasting, lipodystrophy syndrome and all. the other symptoms that can be minimized or reversed in one way or another through a balanced diet.