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标题：Quality of Life of HIV/AIDS Patients: The Influence of CD4 Count on It
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作者：Supantha Chatterjee ; Fasihul Akbar ; Nivedita Das 等
期刊名称：National Journal of Community Medicine
印刷版ISSN：0976-3325
电子版ISSN：2229-6816
出版年度：2016
卷号：7
期号：11
页码：859-863
出版社：National Journal of Community Medicine
摘要："Introduction: The HIV pandemic had a prevalence of 0.27% with 20.9 lakhs PLHIV in the year 2011.Decreased CD4 counts and as-sociated opportunistic infections affects their Quality of Life. Ob-jective: The objective of the study was to assess the association be-tween CD4 counts and Quality of Life (QOL). Material and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 558 subjects visiting ART centre of Burdwan Medical College aged ? 15 years. Information regarding Socio-demographic variables was taken and Quality of Life (QOL) assessed by WHOQOL-BREF (Bengali version). Results and Analysis: Majority of the 558 subjects were Male (6.9%), Hindu (80.1%) and aged between 25-34 years (44.6%). 32.6% subjects had CD4 count < 200 mm3. Increased CD4 count was associated with higher QOL which was found to be statistically significant. Conclusion: QOL of HIV patient is influenced to a great extent by CD4 Count"
关键词：HIV/AIDS; CD4 count; ART