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. 2012 Dec 21;7(12):e51545. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051545

Table 1. Demographics for all-comers and by HIV status.

Patient characteristics All HIV Positive HIV Negative p value
N 550 467 83
Mean age ±SD 35.7±10.8 34.2±8.8 43.7±16.1 <0.001
Age >50 years 53 (9.6%) 25 (5.4%) 28 (33.7%) <0.001
Female sex 283 (51.5%) 256 (54.8%) 27 (32.5%) <0.001
Current smoker 29 (5.3%) 23 (4.9%) 6 (7.2%) 0.42
Ever smoker 162 (29.5%) 133 (28.5%) 29 (34.9%) 0.23
Median pack years smoking (IQR) (N = 161) 3.0 (0.8–10.0) 3.0 (0.6–9.8) 9.0 (2.0–20.0) 0.002
Currently use wood/charcoal stove 399 (72.6%) 345 (73.9%) 54 (65.1%) 0.10
Mean cooking smoke-years ±SD (N = 388) 60.7±45.2 57.7±43.1 79.6±53.2 0.01
Specimen collected during the rainy season 363 (66.0%) 304 (65.1%) 59 (71.1%) 0.29
Final diagnosis:
Pulmonary tuberculosis 303 (55.1%) 267 (57.2%) 36 (43.4%) Referent
 Pneumocystis pneumonia 6 (1.1%) 6 (1.3%) 0 (0%) 0.56*
Other 102 (18.6%) 72 (15.4%) 30 (36.1%) 0.02
Unknown 139 (25.3%) 122 (26.1%) 17 (20.5%) 0.75
Death in hospital 63 (11.5%) 56 (12.0%) 7 (8.4%) 0.35
Characteristics associated with HIV
Newly diagnosed HIV infection 140 (30.0%)
ARV at enrollment 71 (15.2%)
On PCP prophylaxis (N = 466) 256 (54.9%)
Median CD4 count (IQR) (N = 463) 50 (12–160)
CD4 count <200 (N = 463) 371 (80.1%)
CD4 count <50 (N = 463) 231 (49.9%)

SD indicates standard deviation; IQR, interquartile range; ARV, antiretroviral therapy; PCP, Pneumocystis pneumonia.

*

A value of 0.5 was substituted for the zero cell.