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. 2018 Mar 9;18:27. doi: 10.1186/s12874-018-0484-z

Table 1.

Patient baseline characteristics by history of injection drug use

N (%)
Persons who did not inject drugs
N = 1889 (62.1%)
PWID
N = 1155 (37.9%)
Total
N = 3044
Age, median (IQR) 38.2 (31.4–45.3) 41.2 (36.7–46.4) 39.5 (33.7–45.8)
Sex
 Female 655 (34.7) 403 (34.9) 1058 (34.8)
 Male 1234 (65.3) 752 (65.1) 1986 (65.2)
Race
 Black 1395 (73.8) 955 (82.7) 2350 (77.2)
 White 415 (22.0) 184 (15.9) 599 (19.7)
 Other 79 (4.2) 16 (1.4) 95 (3.1)
CD4, median (IQR) 280 (89–478) 279 (103–485) 279.5 (94–480)
Log10 RNA, median, (IQR) 4.7 (3.9–5.3) 4.6 (3.8–5.2) 4.6 (3.9–5.2)
Prior AIDS
 Yes 411 (21.8) 261 (22.6) 672 (22.1)
 No 1478 (78.2) 894 (77.4) 2372 (77.9)
Prior ART
 Yes 431 (22.8) 357 (30.9) 788 (25.9)
 No 1458 (77.2) 798 (69.1) 2256 (74.1)
Year of clinic enrollment
 1996–2001 971 (51.4) 787 (68.1) 1758 (57.8)
 2002–2007 468 (24.8) 222 (19.2) 690 (22.7)
 2008–2014 450 (23.8) 146 (12.6) 596 (19.6)

Abbreviations: ART, antiretroviral therapy, IQR interquartile range, PWID, persons who inject drugs