Cardiovascular Risk Assessment: A Comparison of the Framingham, PROCAM, and DAD Equations in HIV-Infected Persons

Table 1

Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of 294 HIV-infected patients.

Characteristics	Values	95% CI
Sociodemographic
Males	226 (76.9)	71.4–81.9
Age, years mean (SD)	36.8 (10.3)	—
Male <45 y	185 (81.9)	76.5–86.5
Female <55 y	59 (86.8)	78.7–94.8
≥8 y schooling	213 (72.4)	63.0–82.9
Exposure categories
Sexual route	271 (92.2)	81.5–103.8
Homosexual or bisexual^a	142 (51.4)	43.3–60.6
Previous IDU^b	7 (2.7)	1.0–5.5
Clinical HIV history
HIV diagnosis, years median (IQR)	2.0 (0.7–5.0)	—
Opportunistic disease in previous 12 months^c	16 (5.8)	3.5–8.9
Undetectable HIV viral load^d	153 (54.1)	48.1–60.2
CD4 ≥350 cells/mm^3e	207 (72.6)	22.4–32.7
Antiretroviral therapy	195 (66.3)	61.3–71.7
ART duration, months, median (IQR)	19.0 (5.0–54.0)	—

IDU: intravenous drug users; ART: antiretroviral therapy.
a18 missing, ^b33 missing, ^c17missing, ^d11 missing, ^e9 missing.
Continuous variables are presented as means (SD), median (IQR), and categorical variables are presented as absolute value and percentage with 95% CI.