Serum Micronutrient Status of Haart-Naïve, HIV Infected Children in South Western Nigeria: A Case Controlled Study

Table 2

Relationship between the mean serum micronutrient levels and CD4 categories of the HIV infected subjects.

		Selenium (mean ± SD)		Zinc (mean ± SD)		Vitamin C (mean ± SD)
CD4 < 350	25	6.11 ± 1.09	0.0001	58.70 ± 16.53	0.002	0.34 ± 0.15	0.005
CD4 ≥ 350	45	7.97 ± 1.67		71.99 ± 15.07		0.46 ± 0.18
CD4 < 25%	61	6.93 ± 1.53	0.0001	64.52 ± 16.0	0.001	0.39 ± 0.17	0.014
CD4 ≥ 25%	9	9.52 ± 1.34		83.69 ± 11.53		0.57 ± 0.18

is the number of infected HIV subjects in that CD4 category.
is significant at <0.05.