TABLE 2.

Associations Between CD4 Cell Count at Entry and Patient Characteristics

Variable	CD4 <201 (%)	CD4 201–350 (%)	CD4 351–500 (%)	CD4 >500 (%)	Chi-Square Test of Independence
Gender					50.4, df = 3, P < 0.001
Female	37.6	21.8	17.8	22.8
Male	45.1	21.2	16.5	17.2
Race/ethnicity					60.4, df = 9, P < 0.001
White	37.4	21.9	17.4	23.3
Black	44.4	20.8	17.4	17.4
Hispanic	45.9	22.3	15.2	16.6
Other/unknown	45.1	18.3	16.6	20.0
HIV transmission					27.0, df = 9, P < 0.001
MSM	41.1	21.1	17.8	20.0
HET	44.9	20.8	15.9	18.4
IDU	40.9	23.9	16.9	18.2
Other/unknown	48.0	19.7	16.0	16.5
Age in 2000 (yr)					114.4, df = 9, P < 0.001
<30	35.0	22.3	20.1	22.6
31–40	45.2	20.5	15.8	18.6
41–50	47.4	21.7	15.8	15.1
51 +	49.1	22.1	12.8	16.1
Years in care					21.1, df = 21, P = 0.45
<1	42.3	21.1	16.4	19.6
>1 and ≤2	42.3	21.0	17.5	19.2
>2 and ≤3	42.5	22.0	17.0	18.5
>3 and ≤4	42.0	20.9	18.0	19.2
>4 and ≤5	42.8	22.0	16.1	18.0
>5 and ≤6	42.2	23.2	18.1	16.5
>6 and ≤7	49.8	20.4	15.0	14.8
>7 and ≤8	48.5	21.6	13.5	16.5
Insurance at entry					67.5, df = 12, P < 0.001
Private	36.9	20.8	20.2	22.1
Medicaid	44.1	22.3	15.7	17.9
Medicare	57.0	16.8	12.9	13.3
Ryan White/uninsured	42.8	21.4	16.9	19.0
Other/missing	40.2	21.5	18.3	20.0

MSM indicates men who have sex with men; IDU, injection drug use; HET, heterosexual HIV transmission.