Inflammatory and Coagulation Biomarkers and Mortality in Patients with HIV Infection
Lewis H Kuller;Russell Tracy;Waldo Belloso;Stephane De Wit;Fraser Drummond;H. Clifford Lane;Bruno Ledergerber;Jens Lundgren;Jacqueline Neuhaus;Daniel Nixon;Nicholas I Paton;James D Neaton;for the INSIGHT SMART Study Group;
plos medicine2008Vol. 5pp. e203-
256
kuller2008plosinflammatory
Abstract
Analyzing biomarker data from participants in a previous randomized controlled trial of continuous versus interrupted HIV treatment (the SMART trial), James Neaton and colleagues find that mortality was related to IL-6 and fibrin D-dimers.