Table 1.

Gender distribution of baseline characterisitics

	Total	Male	Female	p - value
Age	63.0±43.4	61.9±41.1	64.3±46.4	0.75
ALT (U/L)	42 (31 – 58)	38.5 (29 – 56)	45 (34 – 60)	0.12*
Creatinine (umol/L)	44.5±20.1	44.5±20.7	44.4±19.3	0.98
Baseline CD4 count(cells/uL)	503 (233 – 860)	468 (232 – 822)	591.5 (264.5 – 957)	0.44*

^*Wilcoxon rank sum test.