Table 2.
Relationship between systemic CD4 T-cell concentration measured using peripheral blood and measured gastrointestinal lymphocyte numbers, for all study groups combined, and for HIV-positive study participants only.
| All Patients | HIV-positive Patients | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | p-value | r | n | p-value | r | |
| CD4 T-cell count for all biopsies | ||||||
| TI | 16 | <0.01** | 0.76 | 11 | 0.03* | 0.65 |
| LC | 16 | 0.02* | 0.57 | 11 | 0.27 | 0.36 |
| CD4 T-cell count per milligram of tissue | ||||||
| TI | 16 | <0.01** | 0.81 | 11 | <0.01** | 0.76 |
| LC | 16 | 0.02* | 0.59 | 11 | 0.20 | 0.42 |
| Ratio of CD4 T-cells:Epithelial cells | ||||||
| TI | 16 | 0.01* | 0.61 | 11 | 0.19 | 0.43 |
| LC | 16 | 0.09 | 0.44 | 11 | 0.17 | 0.45 |
Spearman Correlation was used for analysis of significance. *p ≤ 0.05. **p ≤ 0.01.