Table 1 Demographic characteristics of the studied population
Group 1 HCV only ( n = 25) | Group 2a HCV/HIV on HAART ( n = 25) | Group 2bHCV/HIV HAART naive ( n = 25) | P -value for groups 1 & 2 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Median age (IQR) | 53.0 (35.0–56.0) | 32.0 (29.0–44.0) | 29.0 (26.0–37.0) | < 0.001 | |||
Count | % | Count | % | Count | % | P -value | |
Gender | |||||||
Male | 11 | 44.0% | 20 | 80.0% | 23 | 92.0% | < 0.001 |
Female | 14 | 56.0% | 5 | 20.0% | 2 | 8.0% | |
Smoking | 7 | 28.0% | 18 | 72.0% | 23 | 92.0% | < 0.001 |
IV drug abuse | 0 | 0.0% | 18 | 72.0% | 20 | 8.0% | < 0.001 |