Table 1.
Demographic and Clinical Parameters in a Cohort of HIV-Infected Persons Initiating ART in Nigeria Between 2009 and 2011.
| All (N = 1649)
|
No UCI (n = 1384)
|
1 UCI (n = 168)
|
≥2 UCIs (n = 97)
|
P Value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | ||
| Sex | |||||||||
| Male | 30 | 486 | 30 | 411 | 26 | 44 | 32 | 31 | .5510 |
| Female | 70 | 1163 | 70 | 973 | 74 | 124 | 68 | 66 | |
| Mean age (SD), years | 33 (9.2) | 34 (9.2) | 32 (9.0) | 32 (8.5) | .0381 | ||||
| Marital Status | .2605 | ||||||||
| Married | 61 | 1004 | 61 | 840 | 58 | 97 | 68 | 65 | |
| Single | 25 | 411 | 25 | 345 | 27 | 45 | 22 | 21 | |
| Widowed | 14 | 234 | 14 | 199 | 15 | 25 | 10 | 10 | |
| Employment | .2447 | ||||||||
| Employed | 63 | 1027 | 64 | 873 | 55 | 91 | 65 | 63 | |
| Unemployed/retired | 29 | 469 | 29 | 396 | 30 | 49 | 25 | 24 | |
| Student | 8 | 137 | 7 | 101 | 16 | 26 | 10 | 10 | |
| Education | .5746 | ||||||||
| Tertiary | 34 | 559 | 34 | 473 | 35 | 59 | 28 | 27 | |
| Primary/secondary | 45 | 734 | 44 | 613 | 43 | 73 | 50 | 48 | |
| None | 22 | 356 | 22 | 298 | 21 | 35 | 23 | 23 | |
| Baseline CD4, cells/mm3 | |||||||||
| Mean (SD) | 251 | (193) | 228 (176) | 355 (228) | 392 (240) | <.0001 | |||
| <50 | 12 | 196 | 13 | 174 | 8 | 14 | 8 | 8 | .0001 |
| 50–100 | 12 | 190 | 13 | 175 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 4 | |
| 101–200 | 23 | 380 | 25 | 352 | 11 | 19 | 9 | 9 | |
| 200–350 | 30 | 487 | 31 | 431 | 24 | 41 | 15 | 15 | |
| >350 | 24 | 396 | 18 | 252 | 49 | 83 | 63 | 61 | |
| Baseline tuberculosis | |||||||||
| Yes | 4 | 65 | 4 | 59 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | .2276 |
Abbreviations: ART, antiretroviral therapy; SD, standard deviation; UCI, unplanned care interruption.