Research Article
The Association between Yang-Deficient Constitution and Clinical Outcome of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy on People Living with HIV
Table 4
Characteristics of 142 HIV patients.
| Category | Frequency/median |
| Gender | | Male | 96 | Female | 46 | Age | 35 | Yang-Deficient Constitution score | 25 | HIV disease staging | | A | 57 | B | 16 | C | 69 | Mortality | 5 | CD4 count | | Baseline | 113 | 3 months after HAART | 202 | 6 months after HAART | 206 | 9 months after HAART | 229 | 12 months after HAART | 269 | CD8 count | | Baseline | 678.5 | 3 months after HAART | 837 | 6 months after HAART | 836 | 9 months after HAART | 861 | 12 months after HAART | 934 | Highly active antiretroviral therapy | | 3TC | 142 | AZT | 45 | D4T | 95 | EFV | 71 | NVP | 62 | KALETRA | 7 | TDF | 1 | Infection status before starting HAART | | Presence of infection before starting HAART | 50 | Hepatitis B | 16 | Hepatitis C | 19 | Pulmonary tuberculosis | 30 | Extrapulmonary tuberculosis | 12 | Pneumonia | 42 | Superficial fungal infections | 37 | Visceral fungal infections | 31 | Intestinal infections | 10 | Encephalitis and meningitis | 5 | Sexually transmitted disease | 2 | Newly acquired infection after HAART | | Presence of newly acquired infection after HAART | 29 | Pulmonary tuberculosis | 1 | Extrapulmonary tuberculosis | 6 | Pneumonia | 7 | Superficial fungal infections | 2 | Visceral fungal infections | 6 | Intestinal infections | 8 | Encephalitis and meningitis | 2 | Other infections | 5 | Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) | 9 | Adverse events | | Fatigue | 18 | Allergy | 50 | Alopecia | 1 | Gastrointestinal reaction | 44 | Mouth epithelium ulcer and pharyngitis | 7 | Cerebral symptom | 26 | Arthralgia | 3 | Diabetes | 1 | Hematologic toxicity | 48 | Hepatotoxicity | 49 | Abnormal lipid metabolism | 26 | Pancreatitis | 0 | Nephrotoxicity | 11 | Sensory nerve dysfunction | 17 | Hyperlactacidemia | 18 | Total number of side effects | 24 | Number of days an infection occurred after HAART initiation | 80 |
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