Clinical Study
Kinetics and Determining Factors of the Virologic Response to Antiretrovirals during Pregnancy
Table 1
Demographics and baseline characteristics of HIV infection.
| Characteristic | or Median (% or IQR) |
| Patients | 105 | One pregnancy with CHIP | 93 (89) | Two pregnancies with CHIP | 12 (11) | Maternal age at delivery | 30 (26, 34) | Race | | White | 72 (68.6) | Black | 31 (29.5) | Other | 2 (1.9) | Ethnicity | | Hispanic | 41 (39) | Not Hispanic | 64 (61) | Country of origin | | African countr | 15 (14) | Mexico | 17 (16) | USA | 66 (63) | Other | 4 (4) | Unknown | 3 (3) | HIV risk factor | | IV drug use | 12 (11) | Heterosexual sex | 97 (92) | Transfusion | 5 (5) | HIV diagnosis | | Prior to first pregnancy at CHIP | 70 (67) | During pregnancy | 35 (33) | ARV experience | | Naive | 51 (44) | Experienced on therapy at the onset of pregnancy | 29 (25) | Experienced off therapy at the onset of pregnancy | 30 (26) | Unknown | 7 (5) | Plasma HIV RNA at first visit | 109 pregnancies | Median (range) | 2657 (225, 16700) | 400 copies/mL | 78 (72) | CD4+ count at first visit | 108 pregnancies | Median (range) | 450 (269, 628) | 200 cells/ | 13 (12%) |
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Includes Ethiopia, Liberia, Nigeria, Kenya, and Somalia. Nine patients have more than one risk factor.
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