Table 5.

Correlation analysis between NCRs and CD4 T cells, CD4/CD8 ratio, and days since HIV/AIDS diagnosis.

	NKp30	CD4 T cells	CD4/CD8 ratio	Days since HIV/AIDS diagnosis
NK cells
Healthy donors
NKp46	0.7272 (p < 0.0001)	0.2585 (p = 0.2121)	−0.1408 (p = 0.5019)	NA
NKp30	—	0.1617 (p = 0.4400)	−0.0004 (p = 0.9985)	NA
HIV/AIDS group
NKp46	0.9046 (p < 0.0001)	0.2400 (p = 0.2477)	0.1928 (p = 0.3559)	0.0677 (p = 0.7478)
NKp30	—	0.2821 (p = 0.1718)	0.3249 (p = 0.1130)	0.1428 (p = 0.4960)
HIV/AIDSWC group
NKp46	0.7580 (p < 0.0001)	0.3351 (p = 0.1375)	0.0754 (p = 0.7454)	0.0948 (p = 0.6827)
NKp30	—	0.3677 (p = 0.1010)	0.2671 (p = 0.2417)	0.3910 (p = 0.0795)
CD56dim NK subset
Healthy donors
NKp46	0.7838 (p < 0.0001)	0.2220 (p = 0.2861)	−0.1461 (p = 0.4859)	NA
NKp30	—	0.2208 (p = 0.2889)	0.0192 (p = 0.9273)	NA
HIV/AIDS group
NKp46	0.9297 (p < 0.0001)	0.2213 (p = 0.2877)	0.1986 (p = 0.3412)	0.0962 (p = 0.6473)
NKp30	—	0.3037 (p = 0.1399)	0.3446 (p = 0.0916)	0.1946 (p = 0.3512)
HIV/AIDSWC group
NKp46	0.7156 (p = 0.0003)	0.3558 (p = 0.1133)	0.0864 (p = 0.7095)	0.1039 (p = 0.6540)
NKp30	—	0.3571 (p = 0.1119)	0.3112 (p = 0.1696)	0.4727 (p = 0.0504)
CD56bright NK subset
Healthy donors
NKp46	0.7121 (p < 0.0001)	0.6241 (p = 0.0008)	0.0698 (p = 0.7402)	NA
NKp30	—	0.6232 (p = 0.0009)	0.2029 (p = 0.3307)	NA
HIV/AIDS group
NKp46	0.3303 (p = 0.1068)	0.3947 (p = 0.0508)	0.0571 (p = 0.7863)	0.2101 (p = 0.3135)
NKp30	—	0.0987 (p = 0.6386)	0.1911 (p = 0.3600)	0.3172 (p = 0.1222)
HIV/AIDSWC group
NKp46	0.8096 (p < 0.0001)	0.3094 (p = 0.1722)	−0.0091 (p = 0.9687)	−0.1055 (p = 0.6489)
NKp30	—	0.2354 (p = 0.3043)	0.0524 (p = 0.8215)	0.0975 (p = 0.6743)

The numbers are shown as “rs (p)”. p < 0.05. Significant p values are highlighted in bold. The correlation coefficient rs > 0 shows positive correlation; rs < 0 stands for negative correlation. p < 0.05 and rs > 0.4 indicates the significant correlation between the two indexes. NA: not applicable.