Case control study: magnetic resonance spectroscopy of brain in HIV infected patients

BMC Neurology

Table 2 Comparison of laboratory parameters among three groups

Variable	Healthy controls	Asymptomatic HIV	HIV with CNS lesion	p-value	Post-hoc comparison
	Healthy controls	Asymptomatic HIV	HIV with CNS lesion		I vs II	I vs III	II vs III
	Group 1	Group 2	Group 3
	n = 30	n = 20	n = 21
Age	34.33 ± 12.5	36.95 ± 13.1	37.29 ± 10.6	0.63
Respiratory rate Per minute	15.8 ± 1.1	15.4 ± 1.1	16.6 ± 2.2	0.04	1.00	0.19	0.04
Systolic blood pressure in mmHg	121.67 ± 7.47	118.5 ± 7.42	112 ± 12.55	0.002	0.72	0.001	0.08
CD4 count/ul		257.40 ± 129.09	106.95 ± 86.94	0.0001
Hemoglobin gm/dl	14.49 ± 1.57	12.46 ± 1.28	10.68 ± 2.69	0.0001	0.001	0.001	0.01
Serum Calcium Meq/L	9.16 ± 0.6	8.56 ± 0.77	8.16 ± 0.64	0.0001	0.007	0.001	0.18
Serum sodium Meg/L	140.03 ± 4.04	138.05 ± 4.51	134.76 ± 5.52	0.0008	0.43	0.001	0.72
Serum albumin gm/dl	4.56 ± 0.77	3.89 ± 0.81	3.36 ± 0.61	0.0001	0.008	0.001	0.72
Serum globulin gm/dl	2.43 ± 0.59	3 ± 0.46	3.6 ± 0.98	0.0001	0.01	0.001	0.72
LDL mg/dl	100.37 ± 15.33	103.7 ± 20.9	126.62 ± 20.9	0.0001	1	0.001	0.001

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