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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nutrition. 2014 Feb 15;30(9):1081–1084. doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2014.01.011

Table 2.

Effect of selenium supplementation on HIV-1 RNA detection in breast milk

Selenium Group
Selenium Group
Population n Detectable
Viral Load
Frequency
(%)
n Detectable
Viral Load
Frequency
(%)
Relative Risk
(95% CI)
p-value
All Women 209 76 (36.4) 211 58 (27.5) 1.32 (1.00–1.76) 0.05
Among All Women*
Women Receiving HAART 8 0 (0) 4 1 (25.0) - 0.14
Women Not Receiving HAART 201 76 (37.8) 207 57 (27.5) 1.37 (1.03–1.82) 0.03
Among Women Not Receiving HAART*
Primiparous Women 49 26 (53.1) 13 55 (23.6) 2.24 (1.30–3.86) <0.01
Multiparous Women 152 50 (32.9) 211 58 (29.0) 1.14 (0.81–1.59) 0.54
*

p-value for interaction for receipt of HAART (p=0.07) and parity (p=0.02)