Talk:Viral load

Conversion from copies/mL into iu/ml

How do you convert copies/ml into iu/ml? --82.113.119.138 (talk) 19:35, 19 January 2012 (UTC)

Only covers HIV-1

As currently written, the article covers HIV-1 almost exclusively (and also includes aspects of HIV-1 infection and monitoring that are only tangentially related to viral load). Perhaps the article should receive a new title. Keepcalmandcarryon (talk) 11:19, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Keepcalmandcarryon I agree. This is a problem. This could be one way to split things -

1. Viral load, presenting the measurement concept and description of the measurement process. Laboratory science information goes here.
2. Viral load monitoring, as an diagnosis tool in medical treatment
3. Viral load monitoring for HIV, for its use in HIV treatment

I think this split would be best because the majority of content is for "viral loal monitoring for HIV", and also, that is what most readers will want. There is some content about viral load monitoring for other medical conditions, but not much for any one of those except HIV. All miscellaneous medical information could go into that one article. The technical process of measurement is something different, and not of general interest to people who are seeking medical information. I see no reason to combine the theory of viral load measurement with medical articles, since from the perspective of most patients and health care providers, the measurement happens in a black box. They just request a number and get it, and the information they need is medical context for after getting the monitored data. Blue Rasberry (talk) 17:11, 26 May 2016 (UTC)

I just forked off Viral load monitoring for HIV. This article was mostly about that anyway, and the content was confused about what generally covers the concept and when it applies only to HIV. I decided to move everything HIV related there, which includes technical and scientific information beyond the medical treatment.

I think this article that remains is stable enough in its coverage of the concept of viral load. Outside of the lead, there is no information about viral load monitoring for other conditions, and there probably should be, especially if that is something that patients are frequently told in testing as with HIV. All of this is a bit of a mess. Blue Rasberry (talk) 20:54, 26 May 2016 (UTC)