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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: Relationship between Total Lymphocyte count (TLC) and CD4 count among peoples living with HIV, Southern Ethiopia: a retrospective evaluation. | AIDS Research and Therapy BioMed Central Research Relationship between Total Lymphocyte count TLC and CD4 count among peoples living with HIV Southern Ethiopia a retrospective evaluation Deresse Daka1 and Eskindir Loha 2 Open Access Address faculty of Medicine Hawassa University Hawassa Ethiopia and 2Faculty of Public Health Hawassa University Hawassa Ethiopia Email Deresse Daka - drsdk2000@yahoo.com Eskindir Loha - eskindir_loha@yahoo.com Corresponding author Published 22 December 2008 Received 31 July 2008 . A -O T AAAO f.A I .OZ I-7ZA ZZAC r AZ Accepted 22 December 2008 AIDS Research and Therapy 2008 5 26 doi 10.1186 1742-6405-5-26 This article is available from http www.aidsrestherapy.cOm content 5 1 26 2008 Daka and Loha 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 count is a standard measure of immunodeficiency in adults infected with HIV to initiate and monitor highly active antiretroviral therapy however it may not be feasible in resource poor countries. There is a need to have another marker of immunodeficiency that is less resource demanding. Objective The objective of this study was to assess the relationship between total lymphocyte count and CD4 count in one of the resource poor countries Ethiopia. Methods This was a retrospective evaluation. A total of 2019 cases with total lymphocyte and CD4 counts from three hospitals Yirgalem Hossana and Arba-Minch were included in the study. Pearson correlation linear regression and Receiver Operating Characteristic ROC were used. Result For adults the sensitivity specificity positive and negative predictive values of TLC 1200 cells mm3 to predict CD4 count 200 cells mm3 were 41 83.5 87.9 and 32.5 respectively. For subjects aged less than .
