Research Article
ART Regimen and Other Sociodemographics Do Not Affect Cytokine Expression in HIV Patients in Ghana
Table 1
Sociodemographic characteristics of HIV patients stratified according to gender.
| | Variable | Total | Male | Female | value |
| | Age (years) | 45.54 ± 0.7846 | 48.94 ± 1.982 | 44.81 ± 0.8452 | 0.0452t | | ≤30 | 14 (7.0) | 1 (2.9) | 13 (7.9) | 0.2561c | | 31–60 | 169 (84.5) | 29 (82.9) | 140 (84.8) | | | >60 | 17 (8.5) | 5 (14.3) | 12 (7.3) | |
| | Marital status | | Single | 54 (27) | 6 (17.1) | 48 (29.1) | 0.0017c | | Married | 73 (36.5) | 22 (62.9) | 51 (30.9) | | | Cohabitating | 73 (36.5) | 7 (20.0) | 66 (40.0) | |
| | Educational status | | None to primary | 96 (48.0) | 7 (20.0) | 89 (53.9) | 0.0003c | | Up to secondary (senior high) | 93 (46.5) | 23 (65.7) | 70 (42.4) | | | Tertiary | 11 (5.5) | 5 (14.3) | 6 (3.6) | |
| | Employment status | | Unemployed | 29 (14.5) | 2 (5.7) | 27 (16.4) | 0.0018c | | Unskilled | 157 (78.5) | 26 (74.3) | 131 (79.4) | | | Skilled | 14 (7.0) | 7 (20.0) | 7 (4.2) | |
| | Place or residence | | Rural | 93 (46.5) | 12 (34.3) | 81 (49.1) | 0.1107c | | Urban | 107 (53.5) | 23 (65.7) | 84 (50.9) | |
| | Religion | | Christian | 182 (91.0) | 29 (82.9) | 153 (92.7) | 0.0056c | | Muslim | 16 (8.0) | 4 (11.4) | 12 (7.3) | | | Traditional | 2 (1.0) | 2 (5.7) | 0 (0.0) | |
| | Smoking | | Yes | 2 (1.0) | 1 (2.9) | 1 (0.6) | 0.2241c | | No | 198 (99.0) | 34 (97.1) | 164 (99.4) | |
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Values are presented as frequency (percentages), mean ± SED; tStudent’s sample t-test; cchi-square test; . |
