. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 14.

Published in final edited form as: Biometrics. 2013 Nov 13;70(1):144–152. doi: 10.1111/biom.12105

Table 1.

Characteristics at baseline of the 740 subjects analyzed from the Canadian Co-infection Cohort Study.

Characteristic	Summary		N. Missing
Numeric variables	Median	IQR
Age (years)	44	(39,50)	2
HIV duration (years)	11	(6,16)	20
HCV duration (years)	18	(11,25)	4
CD4 cell count	380	(242,540)	16
Binary variables	N.	%
Female	227	25	1
Education: ≥ high school	760	83	0
Taking antiretroviral drugs	735	80	1
Currently treated for HCV	28	3	0
Alcohol in past 6 months	455	50	3

ARV is antiretroviral therapy; IQR is the inter-quartile range.