An ongoing dialogue on HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases,
March 20th, 2009
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow …
Since providers — especially doctors — are notoriously poor at predicting medication adherence, here’s some good news: In a paper from the Women’s Interagency Health Study, protease inhibitor levels in hair samples were the strongest independent predictor of virologic success — better than self-reported adherence, age, race, baseline viral load and CD4 cell count, and […]
Paul E. Sax, MD
Contributing Editor
NEJM Journal Watch
Infectious Diseases
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