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AIDS Research and Therapy BioMed Central Research Open Access The impact of HIV-associated lipodystrophy on healthcare utilization and costs 1 1 1 2 Jeannie S Huang* , Karen Becerra , Susan Fernandez , Daniel Lee and WC Mathews2 Address: 1Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA and 2Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA Email: Jeannie S Huang* - jshuang@; Karen Becerra - kbecerradds@; Susan Fernandez - s2fernandez@; Daniel Lee - dalee@; WC Mathews - cmathews@ * Corresponding author Published: 1 July 2008 Received: 16 April 2008 Accepted: 1 July 2008 AIDS Research and Therapy 2008, 5:14 doi:10.1186/1742-6405-5-14 This article is available from: /content/5/1/14 © 2008 Huang 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 Background: HIV disease itself is associated with increased healthcare utilization and healthcare expenditures. HIV-infected persons with lipodystrophy have been shown to have poor self-perceptions of health. We evaluated whether lipodystrophy in the HIV-infected population was associated with increased utilization of healthcar