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Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Determining eligibility for antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings using total lymphocyte counts, hemoglobin and body mass index. | AIDS Research and Therapy BioMed Central Research Open Access Determining eligibility for antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings using total lymphocyte counts hemoglobin and body mass index David M Moore 1 2 3 Anna Awor1 Robert S Downing1 Willy Were1 Peter Solberg1 4 David Tu5 Keith Chan2 Robert S Hogg2 3 and Jonathan Mermin1 Address 1Global AIDS Program US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Entebbe Uganda 2British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV AIDS Vancouver BC Canada 3Department of Medicine Faculty of Medicine University of British Columbia Vancouver BC Canada 4Institute for Global Health University of California San Francisco San Francisco California and 5Medicins Sans Frontieres - Holland Amsterdam The Netherlands Email David M Moore - dmoore@cfenet.ubc.ca Anna Awor - ara2@ug.cdc.gov Robert S Downing - rqd6@ug.cdc.gov Willy Were - wgw7@ug.cdc.gov Peter Solberg - lisapetermax@hotmail.com David Tu - davidtu@telus.net Keith Chan - kchan@cfenet.ubc.ca Robert S Hogg - dr_bob_hogg@yahoo.com Jonathan Mermin - jmermin@ke.cdc.gov Corresponding author Published 18 January 2007 Received 27 September 2006 AIDS Research and Therapy 2007 4 1 doi 10.1186 1742-6405-4-1 Accepted 18 January 2007 This article is available from http www.aidsrestherapy.cOm content 4 1 1 2007 Moore et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http creativecommons.org licenses by 2.0 which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background CD4 T lymphocyte CD4 cell count testing is the standard method for determining eligibility for antiretroviral therapy ART but is not widely available in sub-Saharan Africa. Total lymphocyte counts TLCs have not proven sufficiently accurate in identifying subjects with low CD4 counts. We developed clinical algorithms using TLCs hemoglobin Hb and body mass index .
