Table 2.

Weight gain in adults starting antiretroviral therapy and alive on therapy six months later, disaggregated by gender and by whether nutritional supplementation was offered at a site or not.

All Patients From 6 Sites:	Male	Female
Patients (N = 629)	213	416
Mean Baseline weight in kg	53.9	47.5
Mean cumulative weight gain in kg (%) at 1 month	+1.6 (3.0%)	+1.0 (2.3%)
Mean cumulative weight gain in kg (%) at 3 months	+3.0 (5.8%)	+2.5 (5.6%)
Mean cumulative weight gain in kg (%) at 6 months	+6.0 (11.7%)	+5.0 (11.6%)
Patients From 3 Sites With Nutritional Supplementation:	Male	Female
Patients (N = 276)	75	201
Mean Baseline weight in kg	53.6	47.7
Mean cumulative weight gain in kg (%) at 1 month	+1.6 (3.0%)	+1.4 (3.1%)
Mean cumulative weight gain in kg (%) at 3 months	+2.8 (5.6%)	+2.8 (6.2%)
Mean cumulative weight gain in kg (%) at 6 months	+5.3 (10.5%)	+5.6 (12.5%)
Patients From 3 Sites With No Nutritional Supplementation:	Male	Female
Patients (N = 353)	138	215
Mean Baseline weight in kg	54.0	47.3
Mean cumulative weight gain in kg (%) at 1 month	+1.6 (3.1%)	+0.7 (1.6%)
Mean cumulative weight gain in kg (%) at 3 months	+3.0 (6.0%)	+2.2 (5.0%)
Mean cumulative weight gain in kg (%) at 6 months	+6.3 (12.4%)	+4.6 (10.6%)

Legend: Standard deviations are not shown in the Table - comparisons between different groups with each gender category carried out using student's t test - no significant differences found