I was just wondering, how you can claim that the CD4 counts are not
predictive off anything when in the paper you quote you find the following
table (Straight from your post) :
>CD4 Cell No. of No. of patients
>Counts, X 10^9 Patients (%) Who Died (%)
>> <0.100 5 (9) 3 (60)
> 0.100-0.199 4 (8) 2 (50)
> 0.200-0.499 20 (38) 5 (25)
> >0.500 24 (45) 5 (21)
so the people enrolled into this study with low CD4 counts were more
likely to die than the group with the higher counts (statistically
significant).
how does that fit with the premise of your post ?
wolfgang
