Clinical Characteristics and Short-Term Outcomes of HIV Patients Admitted to an African Intensive Care Unit

Table 5

Comparison of patients by HAART status.

Variable	Categories	HAART	Naive
Mean age (years) ± SD		41.9 ± 15.3	33.4 ± 16.0	0.01
CD4 ± SD		144.5 ± 174.6	133.1 ± 209.7	0.80
APACHE ± SD		23.7 ± 7.4	25.1 ± 7.0	0.35
GCS ± SD		10.2 ± 4.5	10.9 ± 4.8	0.48
Length of hospital stay		3.8 ± 6.2	4.2 ± 4.7	0.74
Gender	Male	32 (68.1)	15 (31.9)	0.02
	Female	24 (44.4)	30 (55.6)
Outcome	Died	33 (57.9)	24 (42.1)	0.57
	Survived	23 (52.3)	21 (47.7)
Diagnosis	HIV encephalopathy	2 (66.7)	1 (33.3)	0.69
	No	54 (55.1)	44 (44.9)
	Kaposi sarcoma	6 (75.0)	2 (25.0)	0.25
	No	50 (53.8)	43 (46.2)
	PTB	8 (44.4)	10 (55.6)	0.30
	No PTB	48 (57.8)	35 (42.2)
	Toxoplasmosis	0 (0)	14 (100)	0.02
	No toxo	56 (57.7)	41 (42.3)
	CCM	3 (37.5)	5 (62.5)	0.29
	No CCM	53 (57.0)	40 (43.0)
	ARDS	34 (57.6)	25 (42.4)	0.60
	No ARDS	22 (52.4)	20 (47.6)
	Sepsis	12 (57.1)	9 (42.9)	0.86
	No sepsis	44 (55.0)	36 (45.0)
	AKI	13 (65.0)	7 (35.0)	0.34
	No AKI	43 (53.1)	38 (46.9)
	PCP	8 (38.1)	13 (61.9)	0.07
	No PCP	48 (60.0)	32 (40.0)