Role of hsCRP Measurements in HIV Patients
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Ruhi Khan; Arun Vishwanath; Saif Quaiser
- Source
- Biology and Medicine.
- Subject
- Secondary prevention
medicine.medical_specialty
education.field_of_study
Modalities
business.industry
Low resource
Population
Bioinformatics
Omics
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Potential biomarkers
Hiv patients
Medicine
Biomarker (medicine)
business
Intensive care medicine
education
- Language
- ISSN
- 0974-8369
As we herald into the 21st century, the quality of life and the repertoire of HAART (Highly active anti retro viral therapy) has considerably improved. However considerable work is still needed to educate the population about primary and secondary prevention modalities. Moreover regular monitoring of immune response with patients on HAART with conventional biomarkers is still a problem in low resource settings which needs to be addressed. We aim to review hsCRP as a potential biomarker in this regard