Clinical Study

A Comparison of Chronic Periodontitis in HIV-Seropositive Subjects and the General Population in the Ga-Rankuwa Area, South Africa

Table 2

Epidemiological features, periodontal indexes, and immunological indexes of HIV-seropositive subjects using HAART of HAART-naïve HIV-seropositive subjects and of control subjects. All subjects had chronic periodontitis.

Presumably HIV-seronegative control subjects with chronic periodontitisHIV-seropositive subjects using HAART with chronic periodontitisHAART-näive HIV-seropositive subjects with chronic periodontitis

Females14128
Males1646
Smokers521
Mean periodontal probing depths3.196 3.069 3.359
 STDEV*0.580.280.30
Mean gingival recession1.531.671.64
 STDEV*0.890.790.64
Number of gingival recession sites195100 102
 STDEV*5.114.143.56
Mean plaque index75.2%71.9%79.3%
 STDEV*23.620.426.1
Mean bleeding index47.3%42.5%52.1%
 STDEV*23.2518.322.1
Mean CD4+ count     Not available171.63 cell/mm³257.44 cell/mm³
 STDEV*108.94171.25

* STDEV: standard deviation.