ART Regimen and Other Sociodemographics Do Not Affect Cytokine Expression in HIV Patients in Ghana

Table 3

Correlation of the sociodemographic, CD4 counts, plasma viral load, and cytokine distribution of the study participants.

		Age	HIV duration	ART duration	Baseline CD4	CD4, 6 months	CD4, 1 year	PVL, 6 months	PVL, 1 year	IFN-γ	IL-10	IL-12	IL-17
Age	r		0.17	0.14	−0.11	−0.02	−0.03	−0.22	−0.06	−0.27	−0.24	−0.18	−0.00
			0.01	0.04	0.12	0.77	0.68	0.01	0.36	0.00	0.00	0.01	0.98
HIV duration	r			0.47	−0.03	0.14	0.07	0.07	−0.03	−0.13	−0.11	−0.12	−0.07
				0.00	0.66	0.05	0.37	0.41	0.65	0.07	0.13	0.09	0.29
ART duration	r				0.03	0.13	0.16	0.05	0.07	−0.16	−0.09	−0.11	−0.03
					0.63	0.08	0.03	0.51	0.34	0.02	0.19	0.14	0.65
Baseline CD4	r					0.68	0.50	−0.07	−0.04	−0.01	−0.02	−0.07	−0.04
						0.00	0.00	0.42	0.58	0.86	0.76	0.32	0.56
CD4, 6 months	r						0.68	−0.03	−0.07	−0.03	−0.05	−0.09	−0.17
							0.00	0.71	0.36	0.73	0.52	0.23	0.02
CD4, 1 year	r							−0.07	−0.22	−0.09	−0.07	−0.08	−0.11
								0.38	0.00	0.24	0.32	0.29	0.16
PVL, 6 months	r								0.04	0.10	0.07	0.06	−0.02
									0.65	0.21	0.42	0.47	0.79
PVL, 1 year	r									0.06	0.04	0.05	0.02
										0.42	0.49	0.45	0.77
IFN-γ	r										0.84	0.84	0.50
											0.00	0.00	0.00
IL-10	r											0.92	0.61
												0.00	0.00
IL-12	r												0.63
													0.00
IL-17	r