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Table 1 Demographic and clinical characteristics of chronically HIV-1-infected patients and HIV seronegative healthy individuals

From: MicroRNA-29 family expression and its relation to antiviral immune response and viro-immunological markers in HIV-1-infected patients

Item

Healthy individuals (n = 21) (A)

Naïve HIV-1-infected patients (n = 58) (B)

Treated HIV-1-infected patients (n = 5) (C)

AvsB

AvsC

pvalues

pvalues

Males, n (%)

13 (61.90)

43 (74.13)

4 (80)

0.549

0.809

Mean age ± SD (years)

42.38 ± 11.33

39.43 ± 11.84

44.25 ± 21.51

0.326

0.784

Virus subtype

NA

B

B

NA**

NA

HIV RNA (copies/ml)*

NA

34925 (143–1,405,000)

1446 (80–123,200)

NA

NA

CD4+ count (cells/mm3)*

NA

524 (22–1,200)

400 (350–895)

NA

NA

Time post infection (months)*

NA

12 (1–168)

84 (12–168)

NA

NA

Duration of HAART (years)*

NA

NA

6.5 (1–13)

NA

NA

  1. *Data are expressed as median (range).
  2. Differences in demographic characteristics between HIV-1-infected patients and HIV seronegative healthy individuals were evaluated using Student's t and Chi-squared tests.
  3. **NA = not applicable.