Incidence of cervical disease associated to HPV in human immunodeficiency infected women under highly active antiretroviral therapy

Table 1 Selected baseline characteristics of HIV infected women as study subjects.

	Under HAART			No HAART
Groups	n	%	Mean ± SE^a	n	%	Mean ± SE	p value
A. Age (years)
<30	12	34.3	26.4 ± 0.7	10	28.6	26.4 ± 0.9	0.988 ns
30 – 40	14	40.0	32.4 ± 0.8	15	42.8	34.3 ± 0.9	0.115 ns
>40	9	25.7	52.3 ± 2.3	10	28.6	44.9 ± 1.2	0.007 *
Total	35	-	35.5 ± 1.9	35	-	35.1 ± 1.3	0.872 ns
B. Age at first vaginal sex (years)
≤ 16	18	51.4	14.6 ± 0.3	15	42.9	14.5 ± 0.3	0.874 ns
>16	17	48.6	19.3 ± 0.7	20	57.1	19.3 ± 0.4	0.956 ns
Total	35	-	16.9 ± 0.5	35	-	17.2 ± 0.5	0.643 ns
C. Pregnancy
0	2	5.7	0.0 ± 0.0	0	0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	-
1 – 4	23	65.7	2.3 ± 0.3	22	62.9	2.3 ± 0.2	0.971 ns
5 – 9	7	20.0	6.1 ± 0.6	11	31.4	5.9 ± 0.4	0.750 ns
>10	3	8.6	11.0 ± 0.6	2	5.71	10.5 ± 0.5	0.800 ns#
Total	35	-	3.7 ± 0.5	35	-	3.9 ± 0.4	0.737 ns
D. Parity
0	7	20.0	0.0 ± 0.0	5	14.3	0.0 ± 0.0	-
1 – 4	24	68.6	2.1 ± 0.3	22	62.8	2.0 ± 0.2	0.711 ns
>4	4	11.4	9.8 ± 0.7	8	22.8	5.9 ± 0.5	0.006 *
Total	35	-	2.6 ± 0.5	35	-	2.6 ± 0.4	0.964 ns
E. Abortion
0	13	37.1	0.0 ± 0.0	12	34.3	0.0 ± 0.0	-
1 – 2	15	42.9	1.2 ± 0.1	17	48.6	1.4 ± 0.1	0.353 ns
>2	7	20.0	3.4 ± 0.2	6	17.1	3.3 ± 0.3	0.628 ns
Total	35	-	1.2 ± 0.2	35	-	1.2 ± 0.2	0.925 ns

a. Means were compared one after the other using the Student t-test when normality and equal variance conditions passed or the Mann-Whitney rank sum test when conditions failed.
Ns: no significant difference; * significant difference; #: Mann-Whitney rank sum test

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