Table 1.

Demographic, anthropometric and functional variables of elderly people living with HIV and Controls, before and after the training program.

Variables	Living with HIV 11	Controls 21	p
Gender
Male	5 (45.5%)	10 (47.6%)	0.907
Female	6 (54.5%)	11 (52.4%)
Age (mean ± sd)	64.36 ± 2.98	66.95 ± 3.14	0.217
Weight (mean ± sd)
Before	60.17 ± 14.43	69.52 ± 13.68	0.081
After	60.09 ± 13.52	69.16 ± 12.22	0.064
Difference	- 0.08 ± 1.96	- 0.37 ± 2.23	0.724
p	0.893	0.460
Body Mass Index (mean ± sd)
Before	23.03 ± 4.37	26.83 ± 2.99	0.007
After	22.99 ± 4.08	26.73 ± 2.69	0.004
Difference	- 0.04 ± 0.73	- 0.09 ± 0.76	0.845
P	0.848	0.559
Functional Tests#
Sit-Standing (mean ± sd)
Before	9.25 ± 2.35	10.22 ± 2.10	0.239
After	6.58 ± 1.95	8.50 ± 1.56	0.005
Difference	- 2.67 ± 1.54	- 1.72 ± 1.50	0.104
P	<0.001	<0.001
Walking 2.4 m (mean ± sd)
Before	2.01 ± 0.38	2.43 ± 0.58	0.036
After	1.57 ± 0.24	1.75 ± 0.37	0.150
Difference	- 0.44 ± 0.26	- 0.68 ± 0.53	0.169
P	<0.001	<0.001
Muscular Strength*
Leg Press (mean ± sd)
Before	31.05 ± 11.17	75.87 ± 20.23	< 0.001
After	63.18 ± 19.24	92.03 ± 20.69	< 0.001
Difference	32.14 ± 19.94	15.06 ± 20.24	0.033
P	<0.001	0.005
Chest Press (mean ± sd)
Before	10.24 ± 3.42	14.19 ± 8.44	0.149
After	19.59 ± 6.92	20.09 ± 11.78	0.899
Difference	9.35 ± 5.13	6.57 ± 5.49	0.182
P	<0.001	<0.001
Lumbar Extension (mean ± sd)
Before	28.67 ± 9.11	55.39 ± 22.71	< 0.001
After	66.82 ± 14.01	79.93 ± 29.70	0.183
Difference	38.14 ± 12.66	23.50 ± 20.69	0.044
P	<0.001	<0.001
Seated Row (mean ± sd)
Before	23.13 ± 5.39	39.36 ± 10.32	<0.001
After	50.25 ± 16.73	50.53 ± 20.24	0.971
Difference	26.81 ± 14.88	11.63 ± 15.02	0.016
P	<0.001	0.004
Seated Abdominal (mean ± sd)
Before	23.56 ± 6.18	34.39 ± 17.50	0.058
After	35.75 ± 10.61	50.85 ± 21.98	0.052
Difference	12.83 ± 9.80	17.46 ± 19.52	0.490
P	0.003	0.001

^#Time taken to complete the test, expressed in minutes;

^*Sub-maximum load lifted, expressed in kgf