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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 25.
Published in final edited form as: Neurobehav HIV Med. 2010 Jan 1;2010:1–11. doi: 10.2147/NBHIV.S8245

Table 4.

Participant characteristics by genotype and group (N = 229)

Control
HIV only
METH only
HIV and METH
Val/Val or
Val/Met
Met/Met Val/Val or
Val/Met
Met/Met Val/Val or
Val/Met
Met/Met Val/Val or
Val/Met
Met/Met
Characteristic (N = 38) (N = 11) (N = 63) (N = 9) (N = 41) (N = 9) (N = 46) (N = 12)
Age (years) M (sd) 35 (11) 40 (15) 39 (9) 40 (8) 36 (9) 35 (11) 37 (7) 36 (7)
Education (years) M (sd) 13 (1) 14 (2) * 13 (2) 13 (2) 13 (2) 13 (2) 13 (2) 14 (3)
WRAT4 M (sd) 102 (11) 108 (8) 101 (10) 107 (6) 95 (13) 102 (8) 99 (10) 98 (15)
Ethnicity (%) column
Caucasian 66 73 67 67 81 89 65 75
African-American 21 18 22 11 0 0 11 8
Hispanic 13 9 16 22 19 11 24 17
MDD (% lifetime) 16 36 43 56 33 33 51 41
Bipolar 1 or 11 (% lifetime) 0 0 5 0 5 0 7 8
Sedative (% lifetime)
Abuse 3 0 0 0 5 0 4 0
Dependence 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cannabis (% lifetime)
Abuse 27 0* 11 11 41 14 33 33
Dependence 5 0 5 0 20 44 13 0
Opioid (% lifetime)
Abuse 0 0 0 0 7 0 7 0
Dependence 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cocaine (% lifetime)
Abuse 3 0 3 11 18 25 16 9
Dependence 0 0 0 0 15 22 1 1 33
Hallucinogen (% lifetime)
Abuse 5 0 3 0 20 0 4 17
Dependence 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Alcohol (% lifetime)
Abuse 17 9 32 11 40 78* 37 42
Dependence 13 0 6 0 29 33 31 17
METH+ groups
Age at first METH use (mean yrs) M (sd) - - - - 22(8) 24(12) 24(7) 27 (9) *
Total METH use (mean yrs) M (sd) - - - 12(5) 9(4) 11(6) 6(4)
Last use of METH (mean days) M (sd) - - - 129(1 15) 1 10(59) 195(364) 104(121)
HIV+ Groups
HIV RNA, plasma (log copies/mL) M (sd) - - 3.5(1.1) 3.2(1.5)- - - 3.5(1.1) 3.7(1.0)

Notes: *P < 0.05;

Abbreviations: M. mean; sd, standard deviation; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; METH, methamphetamine.