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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Infect Dis. 2010 Jun 15;201(12):1788–1795. doi: 10.1086/652749

Table 3.

Median Levels and Inter-quartile Range (IQR) of Biomarkers in SMART for Participants on Antiretroviral Treatment and with HIV RNA ≤ 400 copies/mL and Percent Difference from CARDIA and MESA Levels cited in Table 2

Age (years)
33 – 44
45 – 76
Biomarker
No.
Median
IQR
% Diff. (P-value)
No.
Median
IQR
% Diff. (P-value)
hsCRP (μg/mL) 140 2.13 0.77 – 5.20 40.2 (<0.001) 293 2.83 1.07 – 6.80 37.8 (<0.001)
IL-6 (pg/mL) 139 1.89 1.15 – 3.42 39.0 (<0.001) 291 2.64 1.55 – 4.14 60.1 (<0.001)
D-dimer (μg/mL) 140 0.21 0.15 – 0.46 NA 293 0.29 0.17 – 0.57 49.1 (<0.001)
Cystatin C (mg/dl) 86 0.90 0.78 – 0.97 NA 130 1.00 0.86 – 1.16 20.9 (<0.001)