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Table 1 Demographics and patient characteristics for 1889 Indigenous patients admitted 2000-2013

From: Human T-Lymphotropic Virus type 1 infection in an Indigenous Australian population: epidemiological insights from a hospital-based cohort study

 

No HTLV-1 (N = 1,254)

HTLV-1 (N = 635)

p-value

Age, years (±SD)

40.9 ± 17.3

47.4 ± 13.8

<0.001

Gender, n (%)

 Female

670 (53.4)

327 (51.5)

 

 Male

584 (46.6)

308 (48.5)

0.43

Residence, n (%)

 Remotea

652 (52.0)

389 (61.3)

<0.001

 Town Campb

193 (15.4)

131 (20.6)

 

 Urbanc

206 (16.4)

70 (11.0)

 

 Nursing Home

42 (3.4)

22 (3.5)

 

 Tennant Creek

132 (10.5)

13 (2.0)

 

 Outside regiond

23 (1.8)

9 (1.4)

 

 Missinge

6 (0.5)

1 (0.2)

 

Sexually Transmitted Infectionsf, n (%)

 Syphilis

198 (38.6)

167 (59.4)

<0.001

 Tested

513

281

 

 Gonorrhea

78 (18.9)

40 (15.9)

0.33

 Tested

413

251

 

 Chlamydia

51 (12.7)

24 (10.0)

0.31

 Tested

401

240

 

Died, n (%)

270 (21.5)

163 (25.7)

0.04

Age at death, years (±SD)

53.0 ± 14.0

54.7 ± 13.3

0.21

Length of follow-up, years (±SD)

4.2 ± 2.9

4.6 ± 2.9

<0.001

  1. aResidence in a remote community >80 km from Alice Springs, but not in the township of Tennant Creek
  2. bResidence in a town camp in the Alice Springs township
  3. cResidence in the Alice Springs township, but not in a town camp
  4. dResidence outside the combined areas of central Australia and the adjacent Aboriginal lands of South Australia and Western Australia
  5. ePlace of residence could not be ascertained
  6. fAny positive test during the study period among subjects aged 15–45 years who were tested