Story Highlights. The average GPA at four-year colleges and universities has risen from 2.52 in the 1950s to 3.11 in 2006. Former Duke University professor found that at some colleges over 50% of the grades given are A's.
If you have AIDS, the following factors can work together to promote weight loss and wasting syndrome: Not eating enough. It may be difficult to get adequate nutrition for reasons such as these: 1  Poor appetite from HIV infection. 2  Medication side effects, such as nausea, changes in taste, or mouth tingling.
Diagnosing AIDS Wasting Syndrome. To diagnose AIDS wasting syndrome, your doctor will take a history, asking questions, for example, about your diet, the medications you're taking, and whether you've been depressed. In addition, you may need a body composition test to evaluate the makeup of tissues in your body.