Table 4.
Study sample demographics by HIV status and sex.
| HIV+ | HIV- | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female (n = 105) |
Male (n = 82) |
p-Value | Female (n = 105) |
Male (n = 84) |
p-Value | ||
| Age (years), median (range) | 38 (2–72) | 31 (3–70) | 0.11 | 37 (2–76) | 31 (1–74) | 0.62 | |
| Tobacco smoking, n (%) | 0.49 | 0.036 | |||||
| current | 30 (29) | 27 (33) | 18 (17) | 28 (33) | |||
| past | 16 (15) | 16 (20) | 15 (14) | 10 (12) | |||
| never | 59 (56) | 39 (48) | 72 (69) | 46 (55) | |||
| Ethnicity, n (%) | 0.09 | ||||||
| White | 44 (42) | 29 (35) | 53 (50) | 36 (43) | 0.25 | ||
| African/Black/Caribbean | 36 (34) | 24 (29) | 23 (22) | 20 (24) | |||
| Indigenous | 19 (18) | 15 (17) | 18 (17) | 11 (13) | |||
| Other | 6 (6) | 14 (17) | 11 (10) | 17 (20) | |||
| Education attainment, n (%) (n = 268) | 0.049 | 0.062 | |||||
| Any university/college | 42 (55) | 19 (33) | 58 (73) | 30 (56) | |||
| High school—completed | 11 (14) | 17 (29) | 8 (10) | 11 (20) | |||
| High school—incomplete | 15 (19) | 11 (19) | 9 (11) | 12 (22) | |||
| Any grade school | 2 (3) | 1 (2) | 0 (0) | 1 (2) | |||
| Unknown | 7 (9) | 10 (17) | 4 (5) | 0 (0) | |||
| Household income, n (%) (n = 268) | |||||||
| <CAD 15,000 /year | 32 (42) | 17 (29) | 27 (34) | 21 (39) | |||
| ≥CAD 15,000 /year | 38 (49) | 34 (59) | 0.19 | 49 (62) | 33 (61) | 0.50 | |
| Unknown | 7 (9) | 7 (12) | 4 (4) | 0 (0) | |||
| Self-reported HCV status, n (%) | 18 (17) | 11 (13) | 0.55 | 7 (7) | 8 (10) | 0.59 | |
| Self-reported HBV status, n (%) | 7 (7) | 4 (5) | 0.76 | 1 (1) | 0 (0) | 1.0 | |
| HIV plasma viral load <50 copies/mL, n (%) (n = 187) |
88 (84) | 61 (74) | |||||
| CD4 count at visit, (cells/uL), median [IQR] (range) (n = 168) |
610 [480–900] (50–1785) |
545 [305–724] (5–1610) |
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p-values indicate Mann–Whitney U, Chi-Squared tests, or Fishers Exact test depending on variable type. Household income and education attainment were available for adult participants only (>18 years old), n = 268.