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. 2011 Aug 11;2012:841979. doi: 10.1155/2012/841979

Table 1.

Demographic and obstetric characteristics of HIV positive, false positive, and negative women.

Characteristic Positive
N = 172
False positive
N = 145
Negative
N = 47391
P
Positive versus
false positive
Positive versus
negative
False positive
versus negative
Age: mean ± std 27.4 ± 6.2 23.9 ± 5.7 26.2 ± 5.9 <0.001 0.012 <0.001

Age <0.001 0.021 0.002
 <18 2 (1) 16 (11) 2494 (5)
 18–35 152 (88) 124 (86) 41412 (87)
 >35 18 (10) 5 (3) 3485 (7)

Race <0.001 <0.001 0.102
 Black 116 (67) 19 (13) 4422 (9)
 White 16 (9) 8 (6) 1955 (4)
 Hispanic 38 (22) 118 (81) 39975 (84)
 Other 2 (1) 0 (0) 1039 (2)

Nulliparous 45 (26) 63 (43) 14488 (31) 0.001 0.210 <0.001

Parity 0.002 0.009 0.004
 0 45 (26) 63 (43) 14488 (31)
 1 53 (31) 47 (32) 14732 (31)
 2 35 (20) 21 (14) 10690 (23)
 3 19 (11) 9 (6) 4893 (10)
 >3 20 (12) 5 (3) 2588 (5)

Multiple gestation 1 (1) 0 (0) 531 (1) 0.358 0.502 0.200

Data expressed as N (%) or mean ± standard deviation.