Table 3. Clinical, biological and socio demographic characteristics of patients recently diagnosed HIV positive who experienced no clinical nor non-clinical indicators compared with those who experienced at least one clinical or non-clinical indicator, with or without MO for testing (N = 262*).
| Clinical or non-clinical indicator not reported | Reported clinical or non-clinical indicator |
p-value (global) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| With missed opportunities for testing | Without missed opportunities for testing | ||||||||
| (N = 143) | (N = 92) | (N = 27) | |||||||
| N | % | N | % | N | % | ||||
| Clinical and biological characteristics | |||||||||
| Clinical stage, WHO Stage 3,4 | 13 | 10.6 | 24 | 32.0 | 2 | 8.0 | <0.01 | ||
| Body Mass Index, median, [IQR] | 22.5 | [20.3–24.9] | 22.10 | [18.7–25.4] | 21.7 | [19.8–25.4] | 0.51 | ||
| CD4 Count /mm3, median, [IQR] | 312 | [180–507] | 197 | [73–340] | 354 | [96–473] | <0.01 | ||
| Hemoglobin (dl/mm3), median [IQR] | 12 | [11–13] | 11 | [10–12] | 12 | [11–13] | <0.01 | ||
| Individual characteristics | |||||||||
| Sex, female | 76 | 53.1 | 58 | 63.0 | 17 | 63.0 | 0.27 | ||
| Age years, median, [IQR] | 38 | [32–46] | 38 | [31–45] | 34 | [30–39] | 0.23 | ||
| HIV test and history of testing | |||||||||
| Reason for the test that lead to HIV diagnosis | <0.01 | ||||||||
| Blood donation | 59 | 41.5 | 6 | 6.6 | 3 | 11.1 | |||
| Sickness | 42 | 29.6 | 55 | 60.4 | 12 | 44.4 | |||
| testing without sickness or pregnancy µ | 41 | 28.9 | 30 | 33.0 | 12 | 44.4 | |||
| Has already been tested at least once for HIV, yes | 46 | 32.2 | 25 | 27.2 | 14 | 51.9 | 0.06 | ||
µ 3 women (1,9%) were diagnosed by a test performed during pregnancy
IQR: interquartile range
*n.b.: among the 273 patients included in the study, 11 individuals were excluded because of missing value on test proposal.
Percentages presented in the table exclude missing values which were found for WHO stage (20 missing values among individuals with no indicator, 17 missing values among individuals with MO and 2 among individuals without MO), CD4 count (4 missing values among individuals with no indicator, 1 missing values among individuals with MO and 1 among individuals without MO), Hemoglobin (4 missing values among individuals with no indicator, 1 missing values among individuals with MO and 1 among individuals without MO), number of sexual partner (1 missing values among individuals with no indicator) and raison of testing that lead to HIV diagnosis (1 missing values among individuals with no indicator and 1 missing values among individuals with MO).
p-value was performed among the three groups.