An investigation of factors associated with the health and well-being of HIV-infected or HIV-affected older people in rural South Africa

Table 2 Median health scores for HIV-infected and HIV-affected older people, rural South Africa 2010

Measure	HIV-infected	HIV-affected	p-value
	Males
Functional ability	87.5	81.9	0.551
Quality of life	68.8	64.1	0.550
Health state score	54.1	50.7	0.551
	Females
Functional ability	75.0	69.4	0.002
Quality of life	62.5	59.4	0.276
Health state score	49.2	47.3	0.041
	Both sexes
Functional ability	77.8	69.4	<0.001
Quality of life	62.5	59.4	0.011
Health state score	50.7	47.3	0.001

p-values show test of equality of medians comparing HIV-infected to HIV-affected for males and females separately. A p-value < 0.05 indicates statistically significantly different medians.

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