Research Article
Relationship between Younger Age, Autoimmunity, Cardiometabolic Risk, Oxidative Stress, HAART, and Ischemic Stroke in Africans with HIV/AIDS
Table 2
Univariate risk factors of ischemic stroke among HIV/AIDS patients.
| | Variables of interest | Presence of stroke n (%) | Absence of stroke n (%) | P value |
| | High SES | 17 (100) | 19 (19.2) | <.0001 | | Men | 16 (94.1) | 38 (38.4) | <.0001 | | Physical inactivity | 16 (94.1) | 45 (45.5) | <.0001 | | Smoking | 17 (100) | 9 (9.1) | <.0001 | | Excessive alcohol | 16 (94.1) | 28 (28.6) | <.0001 | | Total obesity | 16 (94.1) | 36 (46.2) | <.0001 | | Hypertension | 17 (100) | 17 (16.2) | <.0001 | | Heart failure | 16 (94.1) | 9 (9.1) | <.0001 | | Myocardial infarction | 16 (94.1) | 2 (2) | <.0001 | | Type 2 diabetes | 16 (94.1) | 5 (5.1) | <.0001 | | Gout | 16 (94.1) | 0 (0) | <.0001 | | Autoimmunity | 16 (94.1) | 36 (46.2) | <.0001 | | Pulse pressure ≥60 mmHg | 16 (94.1) | 18 (18.2) | <.0001 | | ARV exposure | 17 (100) | 34 (34.3) | <.0001 |
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