Table 1.

Baseline Characteristics and Study Variables

	Viral Load*				CD4+ T-cell Counts†
	N	Mean	SD	P-Value	N	Mean	SD	P-Value
Gender
Male	53	127.84	183.54	0.11	49	475.2	501.39	0.94
Female	44	202.33	267.18		43	482.21	403.79
Race
Black	55	180.95	249.64	0.32	53	476.7	519.8	0.86
Non-Black	41	133.41	195.41		38	493.5	353.9
Other Infections¶
No	33	88.94	123.45	0.078	32	599.44	406.9	0.024
Yes	33	176.21	249.92		31	377.48	350.2

^*Number of HIV-1 RNA copies X 10³ per ml of plasma

^†Number of cells per μl of whole blood

^¶The other infections were recurrent invasive bacterial infections (mainly pneumococcal infections).