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Research Article

ART Regimen and Other Sociodemographics Do Not Affect Cytokine Expression in HIV Patients in Ghana

Table 1

Sociodemographic characteristics of HIV patients stratified according to gender.


Variable	Total	Male	Female	value

Age (years)	45.54 ± 0.7846	48.94 ± 1.982	44.81 ± 0.8452	0.0452^t
≤30	14 (7.0)	1 (2.9)	13 (7.9)	0.2561^c
31–60	169 (84.5)	29 (82.9)	140 (84.8)
>60	17 (8.5)	5 (14.3)	12 (7.3)

Marital status
Single	54 (27)	6 (17.1)	48 (29.1)	0.0017^c
Married	73 (36.5)	22 (62.9)	51 (30.9)
Cohabitating	73 (36.5)	7 (20.0)	66 (40.0)

Educational status
None to primary	96 (48.0)	7 (20.0)	89 (53.9)	0.0003^c
Up to secondary (senior high)	93 (46.5)	23 (65.7)	70 (42.4)
Tertiary	11 (5.5)	5 (14.3)	6 (3.6)

Employment status
Unemployed	29 (14.5)	2 (5.7)	27 (16.4)	0.0018^c
Unskilled	157 (78.5)	26 (74.3)	131 (79.4)
Skilled	14 (7.0)	7 (20.0)	7 (4.2)

Place or residence
Rural	93 (46.5)	12 (34.3)	81 (49.1)	0.1107^c
Urban	107 (53.5)	23 (65.7)	84 (50.9)

Religion
Christian	182 (91.0)	29 (82.9)	153 (92.7)	0.0056^c
Muslim	16 (8.0)	4 (11.4)	12 (7.3)
Traditional	2 (1.0)	2 (5.7)	0 (0.0)

Smoking
Yes	2 (1.0)	1 (2.9)	1 (0.6)	0.2241^c
No	198 (99.0)	34 (97.1)	164 (99.4)

Values are presented as frequency (percentages), mean ± SED; ^tStudent’s sample t-test; ^cchi-square test; .