Role of pretreatment variables on plasma HIV RNA value at the sixth month of antiretroviral therapy including all first line drugs in HIV naïve patients: A path analysis approach

Background and aims We investigated the conditioning roles of viral tropism and other variables on plasma HIV RNA levels after 6 months of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) in an HIV-infected Italian naive population using regression tree, random forest regression, and path analysis (PA). Patients in this multicenter observational study were treated with all antiviral drugs that are currently recommended as first-line therapies.