| surrogate marker |
Laboratory tests that may predict a patient's clinical outcome or indicate whether a drug is effective without having to rely on the traditional clinical endpoints of death or development of a major opportunistic infection. Surrogate markers under study in HIV disease include CD4 counts, CD4/CD8 cell ratios, and viral load.
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| surrogate marker |
Something that indirectly reflects the patient's current clinical condition. For example, the number of T cells tells us something about how much damage HIV has done, but it is not a direct measure of how much virus is present.
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| surrogate marker |
an indirect measure of disease progression. In HIV disease, the number of CD4+ T cells per cubic millimeter of blood is often used as a surrogate marker.
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| surrogate marker |
A measurement of a drug's biologic activity that substitutes for a clinical endpoint such as death or pain relief. Source: Applied Clinical Trials/Advanstar. Click for their site: www.advanstar. ...
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