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.