Association of Sicca Syndrome with Proviral Load and Proinflammatory Cytokines in HTLV-1 Infection

Table 1

Demographic characteristics of patients with and without sicca syndrome associated with HTLV-1 infection.

	Without sicca syndrome		With sicca syndrome		P value
	(; 88.3%)		(; 21.7%)
Gender					0.100
Male, (%)	94	44.1%	19	32.2%
Female, (%)	119	55.9%	40	67.8%
Age	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	0.847
	46.90	12.13	46.54	14.22
Race					0.03
White, (%)	48	23.2%	13	23.6%
Mulate, (%)	94	45.4%	15	27.3%
Black, (%)	62	30.0%	27	49.1%
Other, (%)	3	1.4%	0	0.0%