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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Dec 3.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Cardiol. 2019 Jun 29;124(6):966–971. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2019.06.013

Table 2.

Relation of global longitudinal strain with viral load and CD4 cell count in unadjusted and adjusted analyses.

Unadjusted
Adjusted*
Variable Sample size Slope estimate 95% Confidence interval p Value Slope estimate 95% Confidence interval p Value
Continuous proximal cluster of differentiation (CD4) count
 Proximal CD4 < 500, per 50 234 −0.16 −0.28 to −0.04 0.008 −0.16 −0.28 to −0.04 0.011
 Proximal CD4 ≥ 500, per 50 Continuous nadir CD4 count 0.05 −0.08 to 0.18 0.444 0.07 −0.06 to 0.20 0.306
Continuous nadir CD4 count
 Nadir CD4 < 250, per 50 251 −0.38 −0.63 to −0.14 0.002 −0.39 −0.64 to −0.14 0.004
 Nadir CD4 ≥ 250, per 50 0.13 −0.02 to 0.28 0.096 0.14 −0.01 to 0.30 0.069
Proximal CD4 count < 200 cells/mm 234 0.66 −0.09 to 1.41 0.0845 0.59 −0.20 to 1.38 0.140
CD4 Nadir < 200 cells/mm3 251 0.42 −0.34 to 1.18 0.275 0.37 −0.40 to 1.15 0.344
Plasma HIV ribonucleic acid (RNA) < 400 consistently for 6 months or more prior to echo 219 −0.70 −1.48 to 0.08 0.077 −0.76 −1.60 to 0.08 0.076
Log10 (Viremia copy years), per 1 20 −0.17 −0.86 to 0.53 0.622 −0.07 −0.92 to 0.78 0.855
Years of known untreated Viremia 70 −0.07 −0.22 to 0.09 0.376 −0.08 −0.25 to 0.09 0.348
*

Adjusted for age, black race, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and diabetes.