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Table 1 Baseline demographic characteristics and associated mortality and opportunistic infections of 340 HIV-infected patients in Jimma University Specialized Hospital, from January 2006 to December 2011

From: Nutritional status and its effect on treatment outcome among HIV infected clients receiving HAART in Ethiopia: a cohort study

Characteristics

Number of patients (%)

Number of deaths (%)

Number of OI (%)

Sex

 Male

140 (41.2)

19 (45.2)

38 (45.8)

 Female

200 (58.8)

23 (54.8)

45 (54.2)

BMI

 <18.5

170 (50)

25 (59.5)

55 (66.3)

 ≥18.5

170 (50)

17 (40.5)

28 (33.7)

Religion

 Orthodox

203 (59.7)

29 (69)

44 (53)

 Muslim

100 (29.4)

13 (31)

26 (31.3)

 Protestant

31 (9.1)

0

11 (13.3)

 Catholic

2 (0.6)

0

1 (1.2)

 Others

2 (0.6)

0

0

Age (years)

 <30

174 (51.2)

21 (50.0)

46 (55.4)

 30–39

94 (27.6)

11 (26.2)

21 (25.3)

 40–49

57 (16.8)

6 (14.3)

12 (14.5)

 >50

15 (4.4)

4 (9.5)

4 (4.8)

Marital status

 Single

43 (12.6)

7 (16.7)

10 (12.0)

 Married

116 (34.1)

16 (38.1)

36 (43.4)

 Widowed

22 (6.5)

1 (2.4)

5 (6.0)

 Divorced

44 (12.9)

8 (19.0)

9 (10.8)

Occupation

 Gov’t employee

98 (28.8)

14 (33.3)

19 (22.9)

 Merchant

5 (1.5)

0 (0)

2 (2.4)

 Unemployed

189 (55.6)

25 (59.5)

51 (61.4)

 Private org

37 (10.9)

2 (4.8)

10 (12.0)

 NGO’s

5 (1.5)

1 (2.4)

0 (0)

Educational status

 Not educated

69 (20.3)

4 (9.5)

24 (28.9)

 Primary

122 (35.9)

17 (40.5)

25 (30.1)

 Secondary

106 (31.2)

14 (33.3)

21 (25.3)

 Tertiary

42 (12.4)

7 (1.7)

12 (14.4)