Iron intake is positively associated with viral load in antiretroviral naïve Brazilian men living with HIV

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AUTHORS’ CONTRIBUTION: JLG, NGM, AMC, CFA and MCAS collected data; JLG, EHR, MSBQ and PDB analysed the results, wrote the main manuscript and prepared figures; BG and ASL coordinated the patient cohort; ASL measured the serum iron from patients; JLG, MCAS, MGBA and PDB idealised this work; EHR, MGBA and PDB reviewed the manuscript. All authors contributed for results analysis, and critically revised the manuscript. The authors declare there is not conflict of interests, and the funders had no role in the design, analysis or writing of this article.