hiv-associated adipose redistribution syndrome (hars) etiology and pathophysiological mechanisms艾滋病脂肪重新分配综合征(hars)病因和病理生理机制.pdfVIP

AIDS Research and Therapy BioMed Central Review Open Access HIV-associated adipose redistribution syndrome (HARS): etiology and pathophysiological mechanisms 1 2 2 Kenneth Lichtenstein , Ashok Balasubramanyam , Rajagopal Sekhar and Eric Freedland*3 Address: 1University of Colorado Infectious Disease Group Practice, Denver, CO, USA, 2Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology Metabolism, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA and 3EMD Serono, Inc., Rockland, MA, USA Email: Kenneth Lichtenstein - Kenneth.Lichtenstein@UCHSC.edu; Ashok Balasubramanyam - ashokb@; Rajagopal Sekhar - rsekhar@; Eric Freedland* - eric.freedland@ * Corresponding author Published: 27 June 2007 Received: 28 March 2007 Accepted: 27 June 2007 AIDS Research and Therapy 2007, 4:14 doi:10.1186/1742-6405-4-14 This article is available from: /content/4/1/14 © 2007 Lichtenstein et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated adipose redistribution syndrome (HARS) is a fat accumulation disorder characterized by increases in visceral adipose tissue. Patients with HARS may also present with excess truncal fat and accumulation of dorsocervical fat (buffalo hump).