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.
In AIDS patients, the low numbers of CD4+ T helper cells result in the inability of the body to fight these external aggressors. As a result, patients are more susceptible to diseases in the form of opportunistic infections and rare cancers. It is illness due to these life-threatening diseases that we call AIDS.