HIV/AIDS Monitoring Tests: CD4 (T-Cell) Tests
The Basics
 Understanding CD4 Cells and CD4 Cell Tests (January 11, 2019)
From The Well Project
 What Do My Lab Results Mean? (December 1, 2016)
From AIDSinfo
 Starting HIV Treatment With a Low CD4 Count: What You Need to Know (August 25, 2016)
From TheBody
 Do CD4 Counts Matter After Starting Treatment? An HIV Doc Responds (May 26, 2016)
From TheBody
- Basic Tests and Screenings to Provide Newly Diagnosed Patients (December 10, 2015)
From TheBodyPRO
 How Often Do I Need to Get My HIV Labs Done? (December 9, 2014)
From TheBody
- CD4 Cell Tests (May 16, 2014)
From AIDS InfoNet
- Diagnostic, Monitoring and Resistance Laboratory Tests for HIV (January 2014)
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From New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute
- JAMA Internal Medicine Editorial Questions the Necessity of CD4 Tests in Virally Supressed Patients (August 28, 2013)
In Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
On TheBodyPRO.com
 Can Bugs Increase CD4 Cells? A Blog Entry by Nelson Vergel (July 3, 2013)
We need to wait until further data are available from human studies to say for sure if probiotic supplements help HIV+ patients increase their CD4 cells."
From TheBody
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Research
 For Our Stable HIV Patients, Why Are We Still Sending All These Lab Tests So Often? (January 30, 2019)
From By Paul E. Sax, M.D.
On TheBodyPRO.com
 This Week in HIV Research: How Should We Measure Success? (November 1, 2018)
From TheBodyPRO
 We Order Too Many CD4 Cell Counts, but Should We Really Stop? A Top HIV Clinical Development of 2017 (November 15, 2017)
From TheBodyPRO
 Low CD4/CD8 Ratio and Bacterial Pneumonia Predict Lung Cancer With HIV (March 16, 2017)
From TheBodyPRO
- CD4 Count Before Starting HIV Treatment Predicts Mortality for First 5 Years of Treatment (February 5, 2017)
From TheBodyPRO
 CD4:CD8 Ratio Is More Sensitive Marker of Risk Than CD4 Counts in Analysis From START Study (August 9, 2016)
In HIV Treatment Bulletin, from HIV i-Base
On TheBodyPRO.com
- Treatment in Primary HIV Infection Is Significantly More Likely to Normalize CD4:CD8 Ratio (August 9, 2016)
In HIV Treatment Bulletin, from HIV i-Base
On TheBodyPRO.com
 Higher CD4/CD8 Ratio Tied to Lower Risk of Coronary Artery Disease (June 3, 2016)
From TheBodyPRO
- New Ideas About CD4 Cell Counts and When to Start Treatment (August/September 2015)
In TreatmentUpdate, from Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange
On TheBodyPRO.com
- Higher CD4 Counts -- But Not Statins -- Cut Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke and Mortality (June 22, 2015)
From TheBodyPRO
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