Predictors of underweight among adult patients receiving antiretroviral therapy in Bishoftu general hospital, central Ethiopia: Case-control study

Mesfin Gashaw Assefa; Alem Deksisa; Mariama Abdo; Obse Tamiru Alemayehu; Dawit Wolde Daka

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0291602

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Predictors of underweight among adult patients receiving antiretroviral therapy in Bishoftu general hospital, central Ethiopia: Case-control study

Mesfin Gashaw Assefa ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Mesfin Gashaw Assefa, Dawit Wolde Daka

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bishoftu General Hospital, Bishoftu, Ethiopia
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Alem Deksisa,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Adama Comprehensive Specialized Hospital Medical College, Adama, Ethiopia

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9297-0383

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Mariama Abdo,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Adama Comprehensive Specialized Hospital Medical College, Adama, Ethiopia
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Obse Tamiru Alemayehu,

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

Affiliation Bishoftu General Hospital, Bishoftu, Ethiopia
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Dawit Wolde Daka

Contributed equally to this work with: Mesfin Gashaw Assefa, Dawit Wolde Daka

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: dawit.daka86520@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Health Policy and Management, Faculty of Public Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5465-6345

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Predictors of underweight among adult patients receiving antiretroviral therapy in Bishoftu general hospital, central Ethiopia: Case-control study

Mesfin Gashaw Assefa,
Alem Deksisa,
Mariama Abdo,
Obse Tamiru Alemayehu,
Dawit Wolde Daka

Published: September 21, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291602

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