Do sex and race/ethnicity influence CD4 cell response in patients who achieve virologic suppression during antiretroviral therapy?

Giordano, Thomas P; Wright, John A; Hasan, Mirza Q; White, A Clinton; Graviss, Edward A; Visnegarwala, Fehmida · Clin Infect Dis · 2003

retrospective_cohort · Level III

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Abstract

To determine whether CD4 cell count response to virus suppression during highly active antiretroviral therapy differs according to sex or race/ethnicity, we analyzed data in our observational cohort study for patients receiving their first antiretroviral regimen who experienced virus suppression by 6 months of therapy. In both univariate and multivariate analyses, women had greater CD4 cell count increases, compared with men, as did patients receiving a regimen that did not include a protease inhibitor. Race/ethnicity was not a factor.

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