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Ageing and long-term CD4 cell count trends in HIV-positive patients with 5 years or more combination antiretroviral therapy experience.


ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to describe the long-term changes in CD4 cell counts beyond 5 years of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART). If natural ageing leads to a long-term decline in the immune system via low-grade chronic immune activation/inflammation, then one might expect to see a greater or earlier decline in CD4 counts in older HIV-positive patients with increasing duration of cART.Retrospective and prospective data were examined from long-term virologically stable HIV-positive adults from the Australian HIV Observational Database. We estimated mean CD4 cell count changes following the completion of 5 years of cART using linear mixed models.A total of 37?916 CD4 measurements were observed for 892 patients over a combined total of 9753 patient-years. Older patients (>?50 years old) at cART initiation had estimated mean (95% confidence interval) changes in CD4 counts by year-5 CD4 count strata (?750 cells/?L) of 14 (7 to 21), 3 (-5 to 11) and -6 (-17 to 4) cells/?L/year. Of the CD4 cell count rates of change estimated, none were indicative of long-term declines in CD4 cell counts.Our results suggest that duration of cART and increasing age do not result in decreasing mean changes in CD4 cell counts for long-term virologically suppressed patients, indicating that the level of immune recovery achieved during the first 5 years of treatment is sustained through long-term cART.

SUBMITTER: Wright ST 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3556360 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Ageing and long-term CD4 cell count trends in HIV-positive patients with 5 years or more combination antiretroviral therapy experience.

Wright S T ST   Petoumenos K K   Boyd M M   Carr A A   Downing S S   O'Connor C C CC   Grotowski M M   Law M G MG  

HIV medicine 20121004 4


<h4>Objectives</h4>The aim of this study was to describe the long-term changes in CD4 cell counts beyond 5 years of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART). If natural ageing leads to a long-term decline in the immune system via low-grade chronic immune activation/inflammation, then one might expect to see a greater or earlier decline in CD4 counts in older HIV-positive patients with increasing duration of cART.<h4>Methods</h4>Retrospective and prospective data were examined from long-term vir  ...[more]

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