TABLE 1.
Summary of study demographics between HIV groups.
| HIV+(n = 259) | HIV–(n = 76) | P-value | ||
| Age (mean, SD) | 40.9 (12.0) | 32.3 (10.6) | <0.001 | |
| Gender (n, %) | Male | 74 (29%) | 31 (40%) | - |
| Female | 185 (71%) | 39 (60%) | - | |
| Years of education (mean, SD) | 8.92 (2.61) | 10.3 (2.71) | <0.001 | |
| Pure tone average (dB HL mean, SD) | Right | 7.33 (4.86) | 4.82 (5.50) | 0.001 |
| Left | 6.48 (5.09) | 4.74 (5.49) | 0.002 | |
| CD4 counts (mean, SD) | 681.6 (318.2) | 787.1 (212.1) | <0.001 | |
| Lowest CD4 counts (mean, SD) | 406.7 (205.8) | 659.9 (210.0) | <0.001 | |
Mean and standard deviation (SD) of each demographic variable for HIV groups. P-values were calculated using the Mann-Whitney U-tests due to differences in distribution of groups, which were found to be significant across all tests (all ≤0.002).