A Comparison of Methods for Analyzing Viral Load Data in Studies of HIV Patients.

HIV RNA viral load (VL) is a pivotal outcome variable in studies of HIV infected persons. We propose and investigate two frameworks for analyzing VL: (1) a single-measure VL (SMVL) per participant and (2) repeated measures of VL (RMVL) per participant. We compared these frameworks using a cohort of...

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Main Authors: Charles E Rose, Lytt Gardner, Jason Craw, Sonali Girde, Andrew J Wawrzyniak, Mari-Lynn Drainoni, Jessica Davila, Jack DeHovitz, Jeanne C Keruly, Andrew O Westfall, Gary Marks
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4474923?pdf=render