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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cytokine. 2016 Apr 8;83:85–91. doi: 10.1016/j.cyto.2016.04.002

Table 1.

Description of study participant characteristics at baseline, overall and by sexa

n (%)
Characteristic Overall
(N=766)
Men
(N=402)
Women
(N=364)
p-value
Infection type 0.88
 Incident only 152 (19.8) 77 (19.2) 75 (20.6)
 Any prevalent 307 (40.1) 163 (40.5) 144 (39.6)
 None 307 (40.1) 162 (40.3) 145 (39.8)
Age (years) <0.0001
 <45 200 (26.1) 58 (14.5) 142 (39.0)
 45-54 328 (42.9) 171 (42.6) 157 (43.1)
 ≥55 238 (31.1) 173 (43.0) 65 (17.9)
Race/Ethnicity <0.0001
 White, non-Hispanic 254 (33.2) 238 (59.2) 16 (4.4)
 Black, non-Hispanic 413 (53.9) 144 (35.8) 269 (73.9)
 Other race or Hispanic 99 (12.9) 20 (5.0) 79 (21.7)
Study site
 Baltimore, Maryland 140 (18.3) 140 (34.8) NA
 Bronx, New York 116 (15.1) NA 116 (31.9)
 Brooklyn, New York 134 (17.5) NA 134 (36.8)
 Chicago, Illinois 253 (33.0) 139 (34.6) 114 (31.3)
 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 123 (16.1) 123 (30.6) NA
HIV status 0.02
 Uninfected 197 (25.7) 117 (29.1) 80 (22.0)
 Infected 569 (74.3) 285 (70.9) 284 (78.0)
Current CD4 T cell count (cells/μL) 0.17
 ≥500 313 (55.0) 165 (57.9) 148 (52.1)
 <500 256 (45.0) 120 (42.1) 136 (47.9)
Current HIV RNA viral load
(copies/mL)
<0.0001
 <200 415 (73.3) 228 (80.9) 187 (66.5)
 200-19,999 94 (16.7) 32 (11.3) 62 (22.1)
 ≥20,000 54 (9.6) 22 (7.8) 32 (11.4)
Current ART use 0.43
 No 101 (17.8) 47 (16.5) 54 (19.0)
 Yes 468 (82.2) 238 (83.5) 230 (81.0)
Smoked cigarettes in the last 6 months <0.0001
 No 439 (57.8) 271 (68.3) 168 (46.3)
 Yes 321 (42.2) 126 (31.7) 195 (53.7)
a

For HPV-uninfected participants and participants with prevalent HPV, baseline was defined as POPS enrollment. For participants with incident HPV, baseline was defined as visit of incident HPV detection.