Table 1.
Baseline Characteristics of Women With Chronic Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Infection (n = 619)
| Characteristica | Data |
| Age, median (IQR), years | 40 (36–43) |
| Race/ethnicity, no. (%) | |
| Black, non-Hispanic | 389 (63) |
| White, non-Hispanic | 98 (16) |
| Hispanic | 121 (20) |
| Other | 11 (2) |
| HIV status, no. (%) | |
| Positive | 519 (84) |
| Negative | 100 (16) |
| Recruitment cycle | |
| 1994–1995 | 594 (96) |
| 2002 | 25 (4) |
| HCV log10 IU/mL viral load, median (IQR) | 6.3 (5.8–6.6) |
| HCV genotype, no. (%)b | |
| 1 | 199 (87) |
| 2 | 9 (4) |
| 3 | 15 (7) |
| 4 | 5 (2) |
| CD4+ T cell count in HIV-positive women, no. (%) | |
| <200 cells/μL | 136 (26) |
| 200–500 cells/μL | 236 (45) |
| >500 cells/μL | 147 (28) |
NOTE. aHIV, human immunodeficiency virus; IQR, interquartile range.
bPercentages among the 228 women with HCV genotype data.