Table 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of HIV-infected patients in 6 clinical centres in Northern France and Brussels: January 1997 to December 2007
| Characteristics | Northern France (n = 1218) |
Brussels, Belgium (n = 601) |
p-value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age, years | |||
| Median | 35 | 36 | 0.07 |
| 25th percentile | 28 | 30 | |
| 75th percentile | 43 | 43 | |
| Gender | <0.0001 | ||
| Male | 860 (70.6%) | 338 (56.2%) | |
| Female | 358 (29.4%) | 263 (43.8%) | |
| HIV transmission category | <0.0001 | ||
| Men who have sex with men | 541 (44.9%) | 156 (28.3%) | |
| Injection drug use | 41 (3.4%) | 10 (1.8%) | |
| Heterosexual contact | 622 (51.7%) | 385 (69.9%) | |
| Sub-Saharan African immigrant | <0.0001 | ||
| Yes | 265 (21.8%) | 319 (53.1%) | |
| No | 953 (78.2%) | 282 (46.9%) | |
| Period at enrolment | <0.0001 | ||
| 1997-1999 | 337 (27.7%) | 124 (20.6%) | |
| 2000-2002 | 346 (28.4%) | 147 (24.5%) | |
| 2003-2007 | 535 (43.9%) | 330 (54.9%) | |
| AIDS-defining disease at enrolment | 195 (16.0%) | 67 (11.1%) | 0.005 |
| Baseline CD4 count,/mm3 | |||
| Median | 353 | 305 | 0.006 |
| 25th percentile | 172 | 165 | |
| 75th percentile | 548 | 485 | |