Clinical Study
Utility of Serum Neopterin and Serum IL-2 Receptor Levels to Predict Absolute CD4 T Lymphocyte Count in HIV Infected Cases
Table 3
Correlation of neopterin and sIL-2R with CD4 count at baseline and followup in the three groups.
| | Marker | Group A (CD4 < 200)
() | Group B (CD4 200–500) () | Group C (CD4 > 500) () | Baseline
ρ
(P value) | FU
ρ
(P value) | Baseline
ρ
(P value) | FU
ρ
(P value) | Baseline
ρ
(P value) | FU
ρ
(P value) |
| | S. neopterin | −0.021 (0.924) | −0.160 (0.477) | −0.018 (0.924) | −0.669 (0.000) | −0.122 (0.652) | −0.366 (0.163) | | sIL-2R | −0.165 (0.463) | −0.158 (0.484) | −0.137 (0.472) | −0.356 (0.054) | −0.376 (0.152) | −0.350 (0.184) |
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ρ: correlation coefficient (Spearman’s test).
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