The CD4 count is a test that measures how many CD4 cells you have in your blood. These are a type of white blood cell, called T cells, that move throughout your body to find and destroy bacteria, ...

Measuring CD4 T-cells is important in helping healthcare providers determine the stage and possible complications of HIV infection. While they are no longer used to determine when HIV therapy should ...

What Is the CD4:CD8 Ratio Test Used For? CD4 and CD8 are two types of white blood cells in your blood. White blood cells help your body fight infections. If you have HIV infection, your doctor may use ...

Prototype for the CD4 analyzer and biochip sensor. View Slideshow A new HIV test the size of a credit card promises to diagnose the disease in minutes rather than weeks, and could be deployed in ...

Living with HIV means becoming fluent in a language of numbers that might seem confusing at first but actually hold the key to your health and future. Two numbers in particular – your viral load and ...

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 ...

HIV positive patients who take combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) to combat HIV infection could see the numbers of CD4 cells in their immune system rise to concentrations found in HIV negative ...

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 ...

Recent research on cytomegalovirus retinitis conducted during the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy indicates that CD4 cell count may not be the most accurate predictor of CMV retinitis ...

The relationship between the timing of the initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) after infection with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and the recovery of CD4+ T-cell counts is unknown ...