Table 1. Patient characteristics at baseline.
| Underlying Conditiona | ||||||||||
| Category | Subcategory | Total | HIV | Transplant | HIV−/Trans-b | |||||
| N | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | p-valuec | ||
| Primary Diagnosis | ||||||||||
| CNS | 126 | (61) | 74 | (86) | 18 | (43) | 34 | (43) | >0.05 | |
| Pulmonary | 71 | (34) | 9 | (10) | 24 | (57) | 38 | (48) | ||
| Other | 10 | (5) | 3 | (4) | 0 | (–) | 7 | (9) | ||
| Disease severity | ||||||||||
| Severe | 131 | (63) | 74 | (86) | 18 | (43) | 39 | (49) | >0.05 | |
| Non-severe | 76 | (37) | 12 | (14) | 24 | (57) | 40 | (51) | ||
| Demographics | ||||||||||
| Male Gender | 135 | (65) | 55 | (64) | 28 | (67) | 52 | (66) | >0.05 | |
| Black Race | 106 | (53) | 69 | (80) | 13 | (31) | 24 | (30) | >0.05 | |
| Age (yrs)d | 47 | (15) | 40 | (9) | 50 | (14) | 54 | (18) | <0.05 | |
Primary diagnosis, disease severity, basic patient characteristics and underlying condition of cryptococcosis patients at DUMC (N = 207).
a
There were 86 patients in the HIV group, 42 in transplant and 79 in HIV-negative, non-transplant.
b
HIV-negative and non-transplant.
c
Cochran Mantel-Haenszel Chi-square test for a general association between the three groups; Kruskal-Wallis test for difference between median age was used.
d
Instead of n (%), mean (STD) are shown for age.