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. 2020 Sep;30(5):661–670. doi: 10.4314/ejhs.v30i5.4

Table 3.

Association of anaemia with BMI, CD4 T–cells and viral load

Characteristics B Wald Odds Ratios (95% CI) P-value
BMI 17.00–18.49 (kg/m2) 0.96 0.64 2.60 (0.25–26.96) 0.423
16.00–16.99 (kg/m2) 0.74 0.35 2.10 (0.18–24.23) 0.551
<16 (kg/m2) 1.01 0.67 2.74 (0.24–30.81) 0.413
 
CD4 <200/ul 1.08 8.29 2.94 (1.41–6.13) 0.004
200–349/ul 1.18 11.93 3.24 (1.66–6.31) 0.001
350–499/ul 0.23 0.55 1.25 (0.68–2.31) 0.459
 
Viral Load >1000cps/ul 0.47 0.01 1.048 (0.261–4.215) 0.947

Anaemia relationship with BMI, CD4 T – cells and viral load after controlling for age, gender, duration and frequency of substance injection. BMI (kg/m2) categorized according to WHO (49) while CD4 T-cells categorized as per (50).