Geographical Group Reporting Submission
Cochrane Madrid (IRYCIS/Universidad Francisco de Vitoria)
Jesús Lopez-Alcalde
Published Prognosis Factor Non-Cochrane Systematic Review: CD4/CD8 ratio and CD8+ T-cell count as prognostic markers for non-AIDS mortality in people living with HIV. A systematic review and meta-analysis
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Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal and Instituto Ramón y Cajal de Investigación Sanitaria (IRYCIS), Madrid, Spain
Jesus Lopez-Alcalde
cochrane.madrid@ufv.es
cochrane.madrid@ufv.es
Evidence production
Our results support the use of the CD4/CD8 ratio as a prognostic marker in clinical practice, especially in patients with values below 0.5, but consensus criteria on ratio timing measurement, cut-off values, and time to event are needed in future studies to get more robust conclusions.