Antiretroviral Therapy Initiation Alters the Redox System of Asymptomatic HIV-Infected Individuals: A Longitudinal Study

Table 1

Characterization of 30 PLWHA studied.

Variables	MEAN (±SD) or %
	General	M0	M1
Age (years)	34 (±8.2)	—	—
Male gender	60.0%	—	—
Smokers	30.0%	—	—
Physical activities practice	23.3%	—	—
Use of anxiolytics or antidepressants	6.6%	—	—
Time since HIV diagnosis (years)	2.2 (±3.2)	—	—
post-cART follow up period (months)	8.1 (±1.4)
cART regimen: NRTI + NNRTI	83.3%	—	—
cART regimen: NRTI + PI/r	16.7%
CD4+ T nadir (cells/mL)	335.7 (±211.3)	—	—
% of patients presenting CD4+ T <500 cells/mL	—	70.0%	86.6%
CD4+ T counts (cells/mL)	—	454.69 (±136.4)	625.07 (±276.9)
Undetectable HIV viral load	—	3,3%	80.0%

SD: standard deviation; PLWHA: people living with HIV/AIDS; cART: combined antiretroviral therapy; M0: before cART initiation; M1: after cART initiation; NRTI: nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitors; NNRTI: nonnucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitors; PI/r: protease inhibitors reinforced with ritonavir; isolated presence of these cited factors (which were not excluded, due the adjustment of statistical analysis fulfilled). Statistical tests: Gamma Distribution and ANOVA, .