Body mass index trends and its impact of under and overweight on outcome among PLHIV on antiretroviral treatment in rural Tanzania: A prospective cohort study

• Aneth Vedastus Kalinjuma ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aneth Vedastus Kalinjuma, Hannah Hussey

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: avedastus@ihi.or.tz

  Affiliations Department of Interventions and Clinical Trials, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5862-9264

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• Hannah Hussey ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aneth Vedastus Kalinjuma, Hannah Hussey

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Interventions and Clinical Trials, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania, Division of Public Health, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Getrud Joseph Mollel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Interventions and Clinical Trials, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania, St. Francis Referral Hospital, Ifakara, Tanzania

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• Emilio Letang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Hospital Clínic-University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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• Manuel Battegay,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Tracy R. Glass,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Daniel Paris,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4743-5987

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• Fiona Vanobberghen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ FV and MW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Maja Weisser ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ FV and MW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Interventions and Clinical Trials, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland, Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• on behalf of the KIULARCO study group

  ¶Membership of the KIULARCO study group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

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