Table 1.
Age and laboratory variables at baseline of patients on ART (n = 43) or ART and MVC (n = 45).
Figure 1.
Changes in metabolic variables and CD4+ cell counts over time in patients on ART (solid line, squares) or ART with MVC (broken line, circles).
* denotes p<0.05 and ** p<0.01 for differences between the two patient groups at the time shown (Mann-Whitney test after non parametric analysis of variance for repeated measures).
Table 2.
HIV-RNA copy levels by time and treatment group.
Table 3.
Median (range) levels of sEPCR.
Figure 2.
CD4+ cell counts (solid line) and D-dimer levels (broken line) in ART treated (panel a) or ART with MVC treated (panel b) patients, by sEPCR levels at week 48 (high levels = red lines, low levels = blue lines).
High or low sEPCR levels were defined as sEPCR ≥ or <300 ng/mL (corresponding to the 95th percentile of the normal distribution). As specified in the text, D-dimers levels were measured in all patients up to week 24, while sEPCR was measured in all patients up to weel 48.