Research Article

Magnitude of Anemia and Associated Factors among HIV-Infected Children Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy in Pastoral Community, Ethiopia: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study

Table 5

Comparison of selected variables using paired sample t-test before the initiation of ART and one year after the initiation of ART regimen.

VariablePre-ARTPost-ARTPaired sample t-test
MeanSDMeanSDMean differenceSDt-valueDf value

Hemoglobin level10.671.8211.501.50−0.831.74−4.810101<0.001
CD4 count397.83233.99568.34326.90−170.51171.39−10.047101<0.001
BMI14.731.3815.231.46−0.501.11−4.545101<0.001

Standard deviation; degree of freedom.