. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Neurovirol. 2019 Jan 7;25(2):254–262. doi: 10.1007/s13365-018-0712-7

Table 1:

Demographic and clinical characteristics of the NeuroHIV CTAAC cohort by age of initiation

	Age of initiation ART <2yrs N=46	Age of initiation ART >2yrs N=79	P-value
Age, Mean (SD)	10.43 (0.83)	10.49 (0.82)	.65
ART age of initiation in years, Mean (SD)	1.05 (0.54)	4.98 (2.41)	.00
ART duration in years, Mean (SD)	9.44 (0.73)	5.75 (2.38)	.00
Current school grade, Mean (SD)	4.09 (1.11)	4.32 (1.05)	.25
Current CD4, Mean (SD)	872.3 (414.54)	989.7 (457.75)	.16
Current viral load	Median=0, IQR=40	Median=0, IQR=40	.12
Gender	Male=29 (63%)	Male=37 (47%)	.08
Home language	isiXhosa=43 (93%)	isiXhosa=71 (90%)	.80
ART line regimen (1st, 2nd, and 3rd line regimens)	34 on 1st; 8 on 2nd; 4 on 3rd	66 on 1st; 10 on 2nd; 3 on 3rd	.36

Independent T-tests were used to examine group differences on continuous variables and Chi Square tests were used in the case of categorical variables.