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Table 1 General characteristics of 376 patients with undetectable HIV-RNA switching to dual therapy

From: Switching to boosted protease inhibitor plus a second antiretroviral drug (dual therapy) for treatment simplification: a multicenter observational study

 

N (%)

Median (IQ range)

Male gender

286 (76.1)

 

Age

 

50 (45–55)

Non-Italian origin

38 (10.1)

 

Years on cART

 

13 (7–16)

IDU as risk factor

98 (26.1)

 

AIDS diagnosis

127 (33.8)

 

N. of prev. regimens

 

5 (3–9)

CD4+ nadir

 

123 (46–243)

Baseline CD4+ count

 

534 (341–701)

HCV co-infection

123 (32.7)

 

Prev. GRT for VF

238 (63.3)

 

Switch to PI/r

 ATV/r

69 (18.4)

 

 DRV/r

237 (63.0)

 LPV/r

70 (18.6)

Switch to second drug

 ETR

62 (16.5)

 

 RAL

202 (53.7)

 MVC

65 (17.3)

 3TC

23 (6.1)

 TDF

24 (6.4)

  1. Abbreviations: cART combined antiretroviral therapy, IDU injecting drug use, HCV hepatitis C virus, GRT genotypic resistance test, VF virological failure, PI/rit ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitor, ATV/r atazanavir/ritonavir, DRV/r darunavir/ritonavir, LPV/r lopinavir/ritonavir, ETR etravirine, RAL raltegravir, MVC maraviroc, 3TC lamivudine, TDF tenofovir