Impacts of hepatitis B and hepatitis C co-infection with tuberculosis, a prospective cohort study

Table 7 The effect of hepatitis C viral infection on HIV (n = 896)

		Hepatitis B positive		Hepatitis B negative		X²	P-value
		Frequency	Percentage	Frequency	Percentage	X²	P-value
Viral load	Suppressed	279	40.5	410	59.5	38	< 0.01
Viral load	Not suppressed	413	46.1	73	35.3	38	< 0.01
WHO clinical stage	I.	236	37.8	389	62.2	77	< 0.01
	II.	73	52.5	66	47.5
	III.	94	79.7	24	20.3
	IV.	10	71.4	4	28.6

The effects of hepatitis C viral infection on 896 HIV patients were presented. HIV positive viral load (suppressed, not suppressed), and world health organization clinical stages (stage I, stage II, stage III and stage IV) were cross checked with their hepatitis C viral infection status. X² test and their corresponding P-values were used to check the associations

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