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SUBMITTER: Funderburg NT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5264242 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Funderburg Nicholas T NT McComsey Grace A GA Kulkarni Manjusha M Bannerman Tammy T Mantini Jessica J Thornton Bernadette B Liu Hui C HC Zhang Yafeng Y Song Qinghua Q Fang Liang L Dinoso Jason J Cheng Andrew A McCallister Scott S Fordyce Marshall W MW Das Moupali M
EBioMedicine 20161011
<h4>Background</h4>Initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) and subsequent virologic suppression reduces immune activation and systemic inflammation.<h4>Methods</h4>We examined longitudinal changes in biomarkers of monocyte activation (sCD14, sCD163), and systemic (IL-6, hsCRP, sTNFR-I and D-dimer) and vascular (Lp-PLA<sub>2</sub>) inflammation in a subgroup (N=100 per arm) of participants enrolled in a randomized, placebo-controlled trial comparing elvitegravir/cobicistat/emtricitabine/tenofo ...[more]