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. 2019 Oct 5;48:414–424. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2019.09.031

Table 1.

Baseline demographics and clinical characteristics of patients in training cohort and validation cohort.

Variables Training set (N = 525) Validation set (N = 225) P
Discrete variables
Gender 0.119
  Men 436(83.0) 197(87.6)
  Woman 89(17.0) 28(12.4)
Hepatitis B Virus 0.849
  Positive 68(13.0) 28(12.4)
  Negative 457(87.0) 197(87.6)
Tuberculosis 0.932
  Yes 24(4.6) 9(4.0)
  No 488(93.0) 210(93.3)
  Missing 13(2.5) 6(2.7)
WHO 0.507
  Ⅰ 265(50.5) 125(55.6)
  Ⅱ 53(10.1) 17(7.6)
  Ⅲ 157(29.9) 65(28.9)
  Ⅳ 50(9.5) 18(8.0)
Infection pathway 0.915
  NMHR 304(57.9) 134(59.6)
  MSM 158(30.1) 65(28.9)
  Others 63(12.0) 26(11.6)
Occupation 0.506
  Farmer 128(24.4) 62(27.6)
  Business people 99(18.9) 45(20.0)
  House keeping 124(23.6) 40(17.8)
  Worker 73(13.9) 32(14.2)
  Others 101(19.2) 46(20.4)
History STD 0.490
  Yes 88(16.8) 30(13.3)
  No 310(59.0) 137(60.9)
  Missing 127(24.2) 58(25.8)
Participants category 0.730
  Fixed population 407(77.5) 177(78.7)
  Floating population 118(22.5) 48(21.3)
Education 0.097
  Illiterate or elementary school 192(36.6) 85(37.8)
  Senior middle school 78(14.9) 38(16.9)
  Junior high school 207(39.4) 71(31.6)
  College and above 48(9.1) 31(13.8)
Marital status 0.523
  Married 277(52.8) 113(50.2)
  Unmarried 248(47.2) 112(49.8)
Disease stage 0.379
  HIV 278(53.0) 127(56.4)
  AIDS 247(47.0) 98(43.6)
Origin of identification 0.418
  CDC 136(25.9) 49(21.8)
  Hospital 317(60.4) 140(62.2)
  Others 72(13.7) 36(16.0)
Viral load, copies/mL 0.508
  <200 413(78.7) 175(77.8)
  200–1000 16(3.0) 4(1.8)
  ≥1000 96(18.3) 46(20.4)
Continuous variables
Age, year 49.7(37.3,63.5) 48.2(38.2,61.9) 0.624
Body mass index, kg/m2 21.3(19.3,23.7) 21.2(19.1,23.3) 0.347
CD4+ T-lymphocyte count, cells/μL 208.3(86.0,328.0) 203.0(93.9,299.0) 0.430
CD8+ T-lymphocyte count, cells/μL 861.0(535.0,1272.0) 838.0(581.1,1208.0) 0.870
White blood cell, 109/L 5.3(4.2,6.8) 5.1(4.1,6.5) 0.175
Platelet, 109/L 186.0(144.0,224.0) 191.5(145.0,236.0) 0.495
Haemoglobin, g/L 136.7(118.0,149.0) 135.0(119.0,150.0) 0.933
Creatinine, μmol/L 70.0(58.6,81.0) 70.1(58.3,83.0) 0.610
Triglyceride, mmol/L 1.5(1.0,2.4) 1.4(1.0,2.4) 0.576
Total cholesterol, mmol/L 4.1 ± 0.9 4.1 ± 0.9 0.717
Fasting plasma glucose, mmol/L 5.3(4.7,6.6) 5.4(4.6,6.9) 0.916
Aspartate transaminase, U/L 25.0(19.0,34.0) 23.0(19.0,35.0) 0.449
Alanine aminotransferase, U/L 21.6(15.0,34.0) 21.0(15.0,35.0) 0.761
Total bilirubin, μmol/L 10.8(7.7,15.4) 10.3(7.2,15.6) 0.678

Abbreviations: NMHR, Non-marital heterosexual transmission; MSM, men who have sex with men; CDC, centre for disease prevention and control; STD, sexually transmitted disease.