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Improved Clinical Evaluation of Prospective Vaccines and New Therapies against AIDS
Author(s) -
KVITASH VADIM I.,
SCHMIDT ROBERT M.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1990.tb17891.x
Subject(s) - library science , gerontology , citation , center (category theory) , annals , state (computer science) , medicine , history , classics , chemistry , algorithm , computer science , crystallography
Initial laboratory data for six immunological (WBC, TC#, BC#, T4#, T8#, T4/ T8) and seven metabolic variables (uric acid, BUN, glucose, cholesterol, triglycerides, SGOT, alk. phos.) were obtained from the San Francisco Men's Health Study data base for 130 homosexual/bisexual men. Within the following 24 months, 29 HIV Ab( -) asymptomatics and 29 HIV Ab( +) asymptomatics did not develop symptoms. Thirty HIV Ab(+) ARC patients did not develop AIDS, and 42 HIV Ab(+) ARC patients progressed to AIDS.