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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 29.
Published in final edited form as: HIV Med. 2016 Aug;17(7):542–549. doi: 10.1111/hiv.12358

Table 2.

Comorbidities and HIV Care and Treatment Variables

Patients on ART with all
cardiovascular disease risk
data available (n=1496)
Median (IQR) body mass index 22.3 (20.3 – 24.6)
Body mass index
<18.5 139 (9.3%)
18.5 – 25 952 (63.6%)
25 – 30 266 (17.8%)
>30 48 (3.2%)
Unknown 91 (6.1%)
Median (IQR) blood pressure, mmHg 128 (116 – 139) / 79 (70 – 85)
Hypertension (systolic >140 mmHg) 304 (20.3%)
Diabetes mellitus (fasting ≥7mmol/L) 124 (8.3%)
Median (IQR) total cholesterol, mmol/L 5.1 (4.4 – 5.8)
Total cholesterol (>6.2 mmol/L) 686 (45.9%)
Median (IQR) HDL cholesterol, mmol/L 1.2 (1.0 – 1.5)
HDL cholesterol (<1 mmol/L) 322 (21.5%)
Median (IQR) triglycerides, mmol/L 1.7 (1.1 – 2.6)
Triglycerides (>2.26 mmol/L) 584 (39.0%)
HBV co-infection
Positive 130 (8.7%)
Negative 1168 (78.1%)
Not tested 198 (13.2%)
HCV co-infection
Positive 83 (5.5%)
Negative 1178 (78.7%)
Not tested 235 (15.7%)
Median (IQR) CD4 cell count, cells/mm3 460 (336 – 616)
CD4 count, cells/mm3
<200 85 (5.7%)
≥200 1149 (76.8%)
Unknown 262 (17.5%)
Viral load, copies/mL
≥400 46 (3.1%)
<400 998 (66.7%)
Unknown 452 (30.2%)
Prior AIDS diagnosis
Yes 721 (48.2%)
None known 775 (51.8%)
Current indinavir use
Yes 18 (1.2%)
No 1478 (98.8%)
Current lopinavir use
Yes 190 (12.7%)
No 1306 (87.3%)
Current abacavir use
Yes 213 (14.2%)
No 1283 (85.8%)
Median (IQR) time since ART initiation, years 6.0 (3.2 – 9.9)
Time since ART initiation, years
<2 140 (9.4%)
2 – 4 413 (27.6%)
4 – 8 366 (24.5%)
>8 577 (38.6%)
Year of smoking assessment
Before 2011 43 (2.9%)
2011 165 (11.0%)
2012 690 (46.1%)
2013 598 (40.0%)
Smoking status
Current 298 (19.9%)
Former 337 (22.5%)
Never 861 (57.6%)

ART, antiretroviral therapy; IQR, interquartile range; MI, myocardial infarction; TAHOD, TREAT Asia HIV Observational Database