Effectiveness of Systematic Periodontal Treatment in Male HIV-Infected Patients after 9 Years: A Case Series

Table 1

Demographic and clinical characteristics of the analyzed patients.

Characteristic	Baseline (t0)	Follow-up (t1)
Sex, male	9	9
Age, mean years (SD)		47.6 (4.0)
Smoking behavior
Yes	4	5
No	5	4
HAART
NNRTI based	7	2
Protease inhibitor based	2	7
HIV viral load,^† mean (SD)	20,088 (33,459)	350 (994)
CD4 counts,^‡ mean (SD)	581 (263)	625 (294)
Follow-up, month		113.0 (10.6)

SD, standard deviation; HAART, highly active antiretroviral therapy; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; NNRTI, nonnocleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor; t₀, the baseline examination point in time; t₁, the follow-up examination point in time. ^†HIV DNA (copies/mL); ^‡CD4 cells (cells/μL).