Open AccessCD4 Cell Count and the Risk of AIDS or Death in HIV-Infected Adults on Combination Antiretroviral Therapy with a Suppressed Viral Load: A Longitudinal Cohort Study from COHERE
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
plos medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.847
H-Index - 228
eISSN - 1549-1676
pISSN - 1549-1277
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001194
Subject(s) - cart , viral load , medicine , hazard ratio , proportional hazards model , cohort , cohort study , marginal structural model , antiretroviral therapy , survival analysis , immunology , epidemiology , mortality rate , observational study , virology , confidence interval , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , mechanical engineering , engineering
Using data from the Collaboration of Observational HIV Epidemiological Research Europe, Jim Young and colleagues show that in successfully treated patients the risk of a new AIDS event or death follows a CD4 cell count gradient in patients with viral suppression.
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