Research Article
ART Regimen and Other Sociodemographics Do Not Affect Cytokine Expression in HIV Patients in Ghana
Table 2
HIV-associated clinical and laboratory characteristics of the study participants stratified according to gender.
| | Variable | Total | Male | Female | value |
| | Duration of HIV diagnosis (months) | 60.42 ± 2.998 | 57.71 ± 7.403 | 60.99 ± 3.286 | 0.6787t | | <24 | 41 (20.5) | 8 (22.9) | 33 (20.0) | 0.6735c | | 24–60 | 77 (38.5) | 15 (42.9) | 62 (37.6) | | | >60 | 82 (41.0) | 12 (34.3) | 70 (42.4) | |
| | WHO staging | | 1 | 8 (4.0) | 0 (0.0) | 8 (4.8) | 0.5214c | | 2 | 49 (24.5) | 9 (25.7) | 40 (24.2) | | | 3 | 114 (57.0) | 22 (62.9) | 92 (55.8) | | | 4 | 29 (14.5) | 4 (11.4) | 25 (15.2) | |
| | Duration on ART (years) | | 1–2 | 13 (6.5) | 3 (8.6) | 10 (6.1) | 0.4895c | | 3–4 | 50 (25.0) | 11 (31.4) | 39 (23.6) | | | >4 | 137 (68.5) | 21 (60.0) | 116 (70.3) | |
| | ART regimen | | First-line regimen | 186 (93) | 32 (91.4) | 154 (93.3) | 0.6883c | | Second-line regimen | 14 (7) | 3 (8.6) | 11 (6.7) | |
| | CD4 count cells/mm3 | | Baseline mean | 220.8 ± 10.83 | 205.9 ± 22.51 | 223.9 ± 12.25 | 0.5283t | | Mean after 6 months on ART | 388.5 ± 13.29 | 339.2 ± 24.86 | 399.5 ± 15.16 | 0.0798t | | Mean after 1 year on ART | 592.3 ± 15.27 | 571.1 ± 32.80 | 596.4 ± 17.11 | 0.5434t |
| | Plasma viral load after 6 months on ART | | 0 | 51 (25.5) | 8 (22.9) | 43 (26.1) | 0.4527c | | 1–999 | 73 (36.5) | 16 (45.7) | 57 (34.5) | | | ≥1000 | 76 (38.0) | 11 (31.4) | 65 (39.4) | |
| | Plasma viral load after 12 months on ART | | 0 | 40 (20.0) | 9 (25.7) | 31 (18.8) | 0.5388c | | 1–999 | 142 (71.0) | 24 (68.6) | 118 (71.5) | | | ≥1000 | 18 (9.0) | 2 (5.7) | 16 (9.7) | |
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Values are presented as frequency (percentages), mean ± SED; tStudent’s sample t-test; cchi-square test; . |
