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Table 3 Comparison of risk of transmission, age, origin and CDC-stage of patients of the KompNet cohort actually under follow up, in comparison to newly diagnosed HIV-infections reported to the Robert Koch-Institute (aggregated 2004-2008), by sex

From: The patient cohort of the German competence network for HIV/AIDS (KompNet):a profile

 

KompNet

RKI

 

Sex

Sex

 

male

female

p-value

male

female

Number

     

   absolute

6,976

1,241

 

10,501

2,359

   %

84.9

15.1

 

81.7

18.3

Risk of transmission1,2 (%)

     

   MSM

74.1

---

< 0.001

65.0

---

   Heterosexual contacts

11.2

58.6

< 0.001

10.4

30.5

   High prevalence country

2.5

20.3

< 0.001

4.8

42.4

   IVDU

5.1

17.6

< 0.001

4.9

7.7

   MTCT

0

0.1

0.05

0.5

2.5

   Blood products

1.8

3.3

< 0.001

0

0

   Other

3.9

7.4

< 0.001

---

---

   Not known

7.4

10.9

< 0.001

14.3

16.9

Age (%)2,3

  

< 0.001

  

   < 20 years

0.0

0.1

 

3.0

8.2

   20-24 years

0.7

2.3

 

7.0

12.1

   25-29 years

3.1

5.4

 

15.6

23.3

   30-39 years

20.9

33.6

 

36.2

32.4

   40-49 years

45.8

38.9

 

26.8

14.6

   50-59 years

19.3

13.5

 

7.5

6.2

   ≥ 60 years

10.2

6.2

 

3.9

3.2

Origin (%)4

  

< 0.001

  

   Germany

85.6

61.8

 

65.4

31.9

   Western Europe

4.2

2.8

 

2.5

1.4

   Central Europe

2.4

2.4

 

3.0

3.2

   Eastern Europe

1.3

3.2

 

2.1

4.4

   Sub-Saharan Africa

2.2

18.4

 

4.5

31.8

   South/South-East Asia

1.2

6.7

 

1.8

7.3

   Latin America

1.2

1.8

 

1.4

0.8

   Other

1.4

2.0

 

1.7

4.2

   Not known

0.5

0.9

 

17.6

15.0

CDC-stage3 (%)

  

0.002

  

   A

28.9

33.8

 

66.5

66.6

   B

45.1

42.3

 

21.4

19.6

   C

26.0

23.9

 

12.1

13.7

  1. 1 Multiple answers possible for KompNet cohort.
  2. 2 RKI data extracted using SurvStat [14].
  3. 3 RKI data: category " < 20" includes also persons of 20 years.
  4. 4 RKI data: reports with given data on CDC-stage (Nmen = 6,981, Nwomen = 1,529)[15].