Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of the participants

Characteristic	Healthy men, n = 42	HIV-infected men with 0–10% weight loss, n = 38	HIV-infected men with >10% weight loss, n = 23
Age, years	31.2 ± 1.9	41.7 ± 1.4	38.5 ± 1.4
Weight, kg	79.3 ± 1.6	74.1 ± 1.4	63.0 ± 2.5
Height, m	1.79 ± 0.01	1.74 ± 0.01	1.79 ± 0.02
BMI, kg/m2	24.9 ± 0.5	23.8 ± 0.7	20.1 ± 0.8
FFM, kg	67.2 ± 1.3	53.4 ± 1.5	49.9 ± 2.2
FFM index, kg/m2	21.0 ± 0.4	17.6 ± 0.4	15.5 ± 0.6
CD4+ T cells/cmm	Not measured	224 ± 37	199 ± 49
CD8+ T cells/cmm	Not measured	769 ± 75	367 ± 127
Plasma HIV RNA copy number/ml	Not measured	23,421 ± 11,333	172,613 ± 104,374

Data are mean ± SEM. BMI, body mass index; FFM, fat-free mass.