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Table 1 Patients' characteristics by age group

From: Substantial gap in primary care: older adults with HIV presenting late to care

Patients’ Characteristics by Age Group n = 188

 

Age < 50

n (%)

Age > 50

n (%)

p-value

Characteristic

139 (73.9%)

49 (26.1%)

 

Sex

 Male

103 (74.1%)

38 (77.5%)

0.63

 Female

36 (25.8%)

11 (22.4%)

Race

 White

45 (32.4%)

26 (53.1%)

0.01

 Non-White

94 (67.6%)

23 (46.9%)

Risk Factor

 Heterosexual

39 (28.0%)

16 (32.6%)

0.16

 MSM

87 (62.5%)

21 (42.8%)

 IVDU

1 (0.7%)

4 (8.2%)

 IVDU + MSM

2 (0.7%)

1 (2.0%)

 Unknown

10 (7.3%)

7 (14.3%)

Insurance

 Uninsured

17 (12.2%)

0 (0%)

0.03

 Insured

122 (87.8%)

49 (100.0%)

  Private

62 (50.8%)

25 (51.0%)

  Public

59 (49.2%)

24 (49.0%)

cART class

127 (91.4%)

49 (100%)

 

 INSTI

75 (53.9%)

28 (57.1%)

0.29

 NNRTI

43 (30.9%)

11 (22.4%)

 PI

7 (5.0%)

7 (14.3%)

 None

12 (8.6%)

0 (0%)

 Other

2 (1.4%)

3 (6.1%)

Mean CD4 (cells/ml)

398.5

263.3

0.01

Mean HIV VL (copies/ml)

427,182.90

627,190.00

0.97

AIDS diagnosis

43 (30.9%)

32 (65.3%)

0.00002

No AIDS diagnosis

96 (69.0%)

17 (34.7%)

  1. Non-white = African American, Hispanic, Asian, Other
  2. AIDS at diagnosis = CD4 < 200 or CDC AIDS defining illness
  3. MSM Men who have Sex with Men, IVDU Injection Drug Use, cART Combination Antiretroviral Therapy, INSTI Integrase Strand Transfer Inhibitor, NNRTI Non-Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor, PI Protease Inhibitor
  4. Pearson’s chi-square test was used to analyze the following variables: race, sex. Two tailed t-test was used to analyze the following variables: ARV class, insurance, mean CD4 count, mean HIV viral load, and AIDS at diagnosis