Table 3.

Summary of baseline characteristics and point-of-care ultrasound findings by HIV status in all children and children treated for tuberculosis

	All children				Children with confirmed or unconfirmed TB
Variable	All n = 232	HIV infected n = 39	HIV uninfected n = 193	P value HIV infected vs HIV uninfected	All N = 177	HIV infected N = 30	HIV uninfected N = 147	P value HIV infected vs HIV uninfected
Age less than 2 years, n (%)	82 (35)	10 (26)	72 (37)	0.165	61 (35)	9 (30)	52 (35)	0.572
Under-weight-for-age, n (%)	45 (22)	34 (20)	11 (34)	0.062	39 (25)	9 (38)	30 (23)	0.119
Pleural effusion, n (%)	30 (13)	2 (5)	28 (15)	0.109	25 (14)	2 (7)	23 (16)	0.194
Pericardial effusion, n (%)	8 (4)	0 (0)	8 (4)	0.193	8 (5)	0 (0)	8 (6)	0.188
Abdominal lymphadenopathy, n (%)	28 (31)	12 (31)	16 (8)	<0.001	25 (14)	11 (37)	14 (10)	<0.001
Focal spleen lesions, n (%)	12 (5)	7 (18)	5 (3)	<0.001	12 (7)	7 (23)	5 (3)	<0.001
Focal liver lesions, n (%)	1 (0.4)	0 (0)	1 (1)	0.651	1 (1)	0 (0)	1 (1)	0.648
Ascites, n (%)	6 (3)	2 (5)	4 (2)	0.291	5 (3)	2 (7)	3 (2)	0.177
POCUS positive, n (%)	62 (27)	13 (33)	49 (26)	0.315	54 (31)	12 (40)	42 (29)	0.224

^*children with unknown HIV status were considered HIV negative for this analysis

POCUS: point-of-care ultrasound; TB: tuberculosis