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Table 1 Characteristics of patients diagnosed with HIV during the study period

From: Missed opportunities for HIV testing in newly-HIV-diagnosed patients, a cross sectional study

 

Patients included N = 1,008

Patients not included N = 1,001

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Total N = 2,009

2009 French surveillance data

Sex, number of men (%)

793 (79%)

599 (60%)

<0.0001

1392 (69%)

67%

Born outside of France, n (%)

267 (27%)

418 (52%)

<0.0001

785 (39%)

47%

HIV stage at diagnosis, n (%)

     

  CD4 <200/mm3

308 (31%)

254 (25%)

0.72

562 (28%)

28%

  AIDS

162 (16%)

133 (13%)

0.18

295 (15%)

14%

  Acute infection

153 (15%)

87 (9%)

0.0002

240 (12%)

10%

Age at HIV diagnosis, mean (SD)

39.5 (11.6)

35.7 (11.7)

<0.0001

37.6 (11.8)

38.2

  1. Characteristics at HIV diagnosis of patients included or not included in the study from June 2009 to October 2010, versus characteristics of newly HIV-diagnosed patients in 2009 in France (data from French HIV/AIDS surveillance system [42]).
  2. SD: standard deviation.