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Table 1 Demographics and HIV-specific variables.

From: Pericardial effusion of HIV-infected patients - results of a prospective multicenter cohort study in the era of antiretroviral therapy

Patient characteristics

Mean ± SD

Age (years)

44.2 ± 10.3

Gender (n (%Male))

669 (83.4)

BMI (kg/m2)

24.1 ± 3.7

Heart rate at rest (beats/min)

70.6 ± 12.2

Systolic blood pressure at rest (mm Hg)

128.4 ± 20.7

Diastolic blood pressure at rest (mm Hg)

83.2 ± 12.4

HIV-specific variables

 

Duration of HIV infection (month)

91.6 ± 69

Mean CD4 cell count (cells/mm3)

508.8 ± 300.6

CD4/CD8 ratio

0.62 ± 0.53

Mean HIV-1Viral load (RNA copies/mL)

33419 ± 71827

Way of infection (n (%))

 

   • MSM

477 (59.5)

   • Heterosex. Contact

163 (20.3)

   • IVDA

75 (9.4)

   • Epidemic Areas

56 (7.0)

   • Blood Transfusion

13 (1.6)

Patients receiving ART (% of all)

85.2%

Patients antiretroviral therapy naive (% of all)

10.8%

Patients in treatment interruption (% of all)

4.0%

HIV specific treatment (% of ART)

 

   • NNRTI

45.7%

   • NRTI

96.8%

   • PI

48.5%

Hepatitis B (% of all)

30.5%

Hepatitis C (% of all)

10.5%

  1. Abbreviations: BMI - body mass index, RNA - Ribonucleic acid, MSM - Men who have Sex with Men, IVDA - intravenous drug abuse, ART - anti-retroviral therapy, NNRTI non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors; NRTI - nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors; PI - protease inhibitors.