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Predicting AIDS-related events using CD4 percentage or CD4 absolute counts.

Yasmin Pirzada1, Sadik Khuder, Haig Donabedian

  • 1College of Medicine, University of Toledo, Department of Internal Medicine, 3120 Glendale Ave, Toledo, OH 43614, USA. idypirzada@gmail.com

AIDS Research and Therapy
|August 19, 2006
PubMed
Summary

CD4 percentage is the best predictor of AIDS-related events in HIV patients, outperforming absolute CD4 counts. This finding holds true even with modern HIV therapies, suggesting simpler monitoring may suffice.

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