Medically reviewed by Anju Goel, MD Key Takeaways CD4 counts show how strong your immune system is; lower counts mean a ...

Among women with HIV infection, both lower CD4 counts and higher HIV RNA viral load were associated with higher incidence rates of moderate and severe cervical dysplasia, carcinoma in situ, and ...

How quickly an HIV patient's immune system deteriorates may not affect the outcome of the illness, a study has found, and this could help change current guidelines for treatment of the disease. There ...

A panelist discusses how CD4 counts serve as measures of immune system status that typically increase by about 200 in the first year of antiretroviral therapy. Although there can be laboratory ...

A 45-year-old active substance user began getting medical care in your clinic in 1997. He had started taking antiretrovirals (nelfinavir + Combivir) at another facility. Initial labs showed an ...

Objective:To predict the effects of a new antiretroviral agent on the costs of care in a US HIV care setting. Methods: Recent data on costs of patient care by CD4 count from 2 US cohorts (the HIV ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with HIV who are obese may be at an increased risk for low CD4 cell counts, according to new research ...

Treatment-naive patients with either high HIV viral loads or low CD4 counts at initiation of first-line ART were more likely to experience treatment failure. Results of a study published in Clinical ...

A two-patient case series links multi-organ dysfunction, rather than CD4 counts, to divergent retinal vascular outcomes in ...

A retrospective study of 162 presumptive tuberculosis cases among people living with HIV at a Nigerian tertiary hospital ...