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Table 1 Baseline characteristics in children who initiated highly active antiretroviral therapy.

From: Predictors of mortality in HIV-1 infected children on antiretroviral therapy in Kenya: a prospective cohort

Characteristics

Number

Median (IQR) or N (%)

(N = 149)

Socio-demographic

  

   Age (years)

147

4.9 (2.6, 6.7)

   Female

149

74 (50)

   Orphaned Lost one parent

149

44 (30)

Lost both parents

149

10 (7)

Clinical

  

Hospitalization

147

111 (76)

WHO clinical stage 4

145

20 (14)

Anthropometry

  

   Weight for age z-score

142

-2.35 (-3.14, -1.49)

   Weight-for-height z-score

133

-1.13 (-1.94, -0.21)

   Height for age z-score

141

-2.35 (-3.47, -1.22)

Immunologic

  

   CD4 count cells/μl

145

286 (101, 552)

   CD4 cell percent

137

6.8 (3.6, 11.4)

   CD4 percent severe immune category***

137

122 (89)

Total lymphocyte count cells/mm3

144

3762 (2420, 5788)

Virologic

  

   Log10 HIV-1 RNA copies/ml

127

5.98 (5.44, 6.46)

Hemoglobin g/dl

146

10.2 (9.0, 11.6)

Serum albumin

137

33.0 (28.8, 39.0)

  1. *** Age specific WHO categories for HIV infected children (33)