Cognitive and psychosocial development of HIV pediatric patients receiving highly active anti-retroviral therapy: a case-control study

Table 1 Demographic characteristics of the study population according to the presence of HIV-related neuroimaging abnormalities (NA).

	HIV patients without NA (n = 15)	p-value	HIV patients with NA (n = 5)	p-value	Control group (n = 40)
Age*	12.34 ± 4.58	0.721^†	10.00 ± 6.09	0.437^†	11.84 ± 4.80
Male gender	6 (40.0%)	0.242^‡	2 (40.0%)	0.366^‡	16 (40.0%)
Ethnicity
Greek	10 (66.7%)	1.00	4 (80.0%)	1.00	40 (100.0%)
Other	5 (33.3%)	< 0.0001^‡	1 (20.0%)	0.111^‡	0 (0.0%)
Attendance in private school	0 (0.0%)	0.099^‡	0 (0.0%)	0.485^‡	9 (22.5%)
Mother's Education*	8.40 ± 2.03	0.360 ^†	8.60 ± 4.83	0.711 ^†	9.15 ± 2.88
Father's Education *	7.28 ± 2.03	0.106 ^†	9.60 ± 2.51	0.965 ^†	8.78 ± 2.41
Mother's Profession		0.189^§		0.526^§
Manual	15 (100.0%)		4 (80.0%)		34 (85.0%)
Employee	0 (0.0%)		0 (0.0%)		3 (7.5%)
Academic	0 (0.0%)		1 (20.0%)		3 (7.5%)
Father's Profession		0,518^§		0.237^§
Manual	12 (80.0%)		1 (20.0%)		25 (62.5%)
Employee	3 (20.0%)		4 (80.0%)		14 (35.0%)
Academic	0 (0.0%)		0 (0.0%)		1 (2.5%)

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