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SUBMITTER: Sauter R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5079322 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sauter Rafael R Huang Ruizhu R Ledergerber Bruno B Battegay Manuel M Bernasconi Enos E Cavassini Matthias M Furrer Hansjakob H Hoffmann Matthias M Rougemont Mathieu M Günthard Huldrych F HF Held Leonhard L
Medicine 20161001 42
Plasma HIV viral load is related to declining CD4 lymphocytes. The extent to which CD8 cells, in addition to RNA viral load, predict the depletion of CD4 cells is not well characterized so far. We examine if CD8 cell count is a prognostic factor for CD4 cell counts during an HIV infection.A longitudinal analysis is conducted using data from the Swiss HIV cohort study collected between January 2000 and October 2014. Linear mixed regression models were applied to observations from HIV-1-infected t ...[more]