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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2012 Jan 14;124(1-2):108–112. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2011.12.019

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of HIV-positive drug users stratified by injecting versus non-injecting drug use (n = 267)

Characteristic Injection drug use
p – value
Yes
n = 230 (86.1%)		 No
n = 37 (13.9%)
Age
 Median (IQR)* 36.4 (30.1 – 43.5) 38.5 (29.4 – 43.0) 0.864
Gender
 Female 103 (83.1) 21 (16.9) 0.175
 Male 127 (88.8) 16 (11.2)
Aboriginal ancestry
 Yes 91 (86.7) 14 (13.3) 0.842
 No 139 (85.8) 23 (14.2)
Methadone treatment
 Yes 95 (88.8) 12 (11.2) 0.307
 No 135 (84.4) 25 (15.6)
HIV-1 viral load†
 Median 90500 (41500 – 150000) 61000 (21100 – 100010) 0.032
CD4 count
 Median (IQR)* 240 (150 – 370) 220 (100 – 320) 0.175
*

IQR = interquartile range

†

refers to copies/ml