Table 1.

Demographic data of patients and controls used in this study

Variables	HIV-1/AIDS patients	Healthy controls	P value
Number	N = 500	N = 500
Gender N (%)
Male	326 (65.2%)	317 (63.4%)	0.553
Female	174 (34.8%)	183 (36.6%)
Mean age (years) Mean ± SD	35.39 ± 7.90	36.15 ± 9.75	0.180