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A Low Peripheral Blood CD4/CD8 Ratio Is Associated with Pulmonary Emphysema in HIV.

Matthew TripletteEngi F AttiaKathleen M AkgünGuy W Soo HooMatthew S FreibergAdeel A ButtCherry WongtrakoolMatthew Bidwell GoetzSheldon T BrownChristopher J GraberLaurence HuangKristina Crothers
Published in: PloS one (2017)
A low CD4/CD8 ratio was associated with emphysema and low DLCO in HIV+ subjects, independent of other risk factors and clinical markers of HIV. The CD4/CD8 ratio may be a useful, clinically available, marker for risk of emphysema in HIV+ subjects in the antiretroviral therapy (ART) era.
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