Assessing the effect of traditional Chinese medicine on CD4+ lymphocyte count of 807 HIVAIDS cases英文文献资料.docVIP

J. Biomedical Science and Engineering, 2010, 3, 833-836 JBiSE doi:10.4236/jbise.2010.39112 Published Online September 2010 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jbise/). Assessing the effect of traditional chinese medicine on CD4+ lymphocyte count of 807 HIV/AIDS cases* Jian Wang , Wen Zou , Ying Liu , Liran Xu , Fang Lu , Yuguang Wang , Guoliang Zhang , 1 1 1 2 3 4 5 1 1 Jiaming Lu , Jun Zhou 1 Traditional Chinese Medicine Center for AIDS Prevention and Treatment, China Academy of Chinese Medicine Sciences, Beijing, China; 2 3 4 5 Henan Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, China; Yunnan Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Kunming, China; Beijing Ditan Hospital, Beijing, China; An’hui Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hefei, China. Email: veven@ Received 20 May 2010; revised 8 June 2010; accepted 21 June 2010. ABSTRACT Keywords: Traditional Chinese Medicine; HIV/AIDS; CD4+ lymphocyte count National Free Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) HIV/AIDS Treatment Program had been carried out for more than 5 years, treating 9267 cases accumulate- ly by 2009. We report the 3-year outcome on CD4+ lymphocyte count of 807 cases of HIV/AIDS enrolled in the National Free TCM HIV/AIDS Treatment Pro- gram, the CD4+ lymphocyte count were measured every 6 month at 7 time points (0, 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36 month). The results showed that the overall CD4+ ly mphocyte count maintained stable at the 6th month and the 12th month, declined significantly at the 18th month, 24th month and 30th month, then elevated to the pre-treatment level at the 36th month. Patients with pre-treatment CD4+ lymphocyte count level 1. INTRODUCTION In China, an estimated 740,000 persons are infected with HIV, of whom a