Research Article

Assessing the Association between Leptin and Bone Mineral Density in HIV-Infected Men

Table 1

Baseline characteristics*.

Characteristics š‘› = 1 0 7 men

Age (years)46.2 Ā± 9.2
Race/ethnicity (% Caucasian)69
Height (cm)175.9 Ā± 6.2
Weight (kg)77.7 Ā± 11.7
Body mass index (kg/m2)25.1 Ā± 3.6
Years of HIV infection10.6 Ā± 5.0
Antiretroviral treatment (%)94
ā€ƒPI (%)86
ā€ƒNRTI (%)93
ā€ƒNNRTI (%)20
CD4 count (cells/ šœ‡ L)377 (243, 583)
Testosterone (ng/dL)525 Ā± 220
Leptin (ng/mL)3.2 (2.1, 5.7)
Insulin (Ī¼IU/mL)17.1 Ā± 13.3
BMC-total body (grams)2867 Ā± 382
BMD-total body (g/cm2)1.184 Ā± 0.081
Total body fat (kg)15.0 Ā± 7.5
Truncal fat (kg)9.1 Ā± 4.5
Appendicular fat (kg)5.1 Ā± 3.2
Lean body mass (kg)59.7 Ā± 7.6

*Mean Ā± SD (for normally distributed data) or median (IQR) (for skewed data).