Table 3.

Liver Function Abnormalities in HIV Patients with or without HBV and/or HCV Co-infection.

Liver Function Test Overall (n=180) HIV (n=137) HIV and Co-infection (n=43) P Value
Normal, n (%) 103 (57.2) 73 (53.3) 30 (69.8)
High SGOT, n (%) 16 (8.9) 13 (9.5) 3 (7.0) 0.080
High SGPT, n (%) 22 (12.2) 17 (12.4) 5 (11.6)
High SGOT and SGPT, n (%) 39 (21.7) 34 (24.8) 5 (11.6)

HBV, hepatitis B virus; HCV, hepatitis C virus; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; SGOT, serum glutamate oxaloacetate transferase; SGPT, serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase.

RMMJ Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal Rambam Health Care Campus 2022; 13(3): e0016. ISSN: 2076-9172
Published online 2022 July 31. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10474
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