An ongoing dialogue on HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases,
April 18th, 2011
When to Start Antiretroviral Therapy, Take 3
A third observational study on “When to Start ART” has just appeared in the Annals of Internal Medicine, “The HIV-CAUSAL Collaboration.” As with ART-CC and NA-ACCORD, it’s a large study, starting with over 20,000 people with HIV with baseline CD4s >500 receiving care in Europe and the United States. Out of this group, 8392 experienced CD4 […]
March 14th, 2009
Maybe It’s Not the Cheeseburgers
… At least that’s the implied message in this nice paper from the latest Annals of Internal Medicine, which evaluated responses to lipid-lowering therapy among patients with and without HIV. The study included patients from the Kaiser Permanente of Northern California integrated health system, with 829 individuals with HIV and 6941 without. The quick summary is that […]