Hierarchical Bayesian inference for HIV dynamic differential equation models incorporating multiple treatment factors.
Summary of "Hierarchical Bayesian inference for HIV dynamic differential equation models incorporating multiple treatment factors."
Studies on HIV dynamics in AIDS research are very important in understanding the pathogenesis of HIV-1 infection and also in assessing the effectiveness of antiretroviral (ARV) treatment. Viral dynamic models can be formulated through a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODE), but there has been only limited development of statistical methodologies for inference. This article, motivated by an AIDS clinical study, discusses a hierarchical Bayesian nonlinear mixed-effects modeling approach to dynamic ODE models without a closed-form solution. In this model, we fully integrate viral load, medication adherence, drug resistance, pharmacokinetics, baseline covariates and time-dependent drug efficacy into the data analysis for characterizing long-term virologic responses. Our method is implemented by a data set from an AIDS clinical study. The results suggest that modeling HIV dynamics and virologic responses with consideration of time-varying clinical factors as well as baseline characteristics may be important for HIV/AIDS studies in providing quantitative guidance to better understand the virologic responses to ARV treatment and to help the evaluation of clinical trial design in response to existing therapies.
Affiliation
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, MDC 56, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
Journal Details
This article was published in the following journal.
Name: Biometrical journal. Biometrische Zeitschrift
ISSN: 1521-4036
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Links
- PubMed Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20661953
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bimj.200900173
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