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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Neuroimmunol. 2015 Sep 4;288:25–33. doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2015.08.020

Table 1.

Clinical and Demographic Characteristics of Participants (n = 73)

HIV-Uninfected
HIV-Infected
n = 44 P-value*
(HIV− vs. HIV+)
Normal HAND (HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders) P-value**
(Comparing 3 groups within HIV+)

n = 17 n = 6
ANI = 6
n = 6
MND = 1 HAD = 5
Gender (% male) 45.5% p = 0.48 64.7% 50.0% 33.3% p = 0.46
Age (years) 35.1 (32.2, 38.2) p = 0.10 33.2 (28.9, 36.5) 33.8 (26.4, 39.6) 33.3 (29.3, 37.1) p = 0.97
Education (years) - - 11 (9, 15) 14 (12, 19) 6 (2, 14) p = 0.11
NPZ global score - - 0.277 (0.086, 0.569) −0.280 (−0.451, 0.026) −1.562 (−1.620, −1.466) p = 0.0002
Log10 Plasma Viral Load (copies/ml) - - 4.998 (4.350, 5.469) 4.914 (4.405, 5.161) 5.565 (4.760, 5.589) p = 0.33
Log10CD14+ Total HIV DNA - - 1.342 (1.255, 1.568) 1.831 (1.663, 2.199) 2.090 (2.025, 2.152) p = 0.016
CD4 count (cells/μL) - - 239 (159, 328) 331 (261, 397) 190 (30, 310) p = 0.14
CD8 T cell activation (%) 9.1 (6.8, 12.2) p < 0.0001 35.9 (31.5, 42.3) 44.7 (38.9, 48.5) 36.8 (35.2, 53.5) p = 0.60

Data are shown as median (interquartile range), except for gender.

*

P-values calculated by Fisher's exact test or Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test

**

P-values calculated by Kruskal-Wallis tests