Predictors of Weight Change in Male HIV-Positive Injection Drug Users Initiating Antiretroviral Therapy in Hanoi, Vietnam

Table 1

Characteristics measured at baseline study visit only for 99 HIV-positive men recruited from the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases (NHTD) in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Baseline characteristic	Mean ± SD or N(%)
Age	31.7 ± 4.8
Marital Status^1
Never married	22 (22%)
Married	68 (69%)
Divorced/Sep/Widowed	8 (8%)
Education
<9 years	21 (21%)
10–12 years	43 (43%)
Vocational	18 (18%)
University or more	17 (17%)
Jail or prison (ever)	31 (31%)
Tobacco smoking^1	77 (79%)
Hepatitis C	91 (92%)
Initial ART Regimen^2
ZDV/3TC/EFV	48 (59%)
ZDV/3TC/NVP	19 (23%)
D4T/3TC/NVP	9 (11%)
D4T/3TC/EFV	4 (5%)
DDI/ABC/KAL	1 (1%)

Abbreviations: ZDV: zidovudine; 3TC, lamivudine; EFV: efavirenz; NVP: Nevirapine; D4T: stavudine; ABC: abacavir; KAL: kaletra.
¹𝑛=98.
²𝑛=81.