The following is Supplementary data to this article:
Supplementary Material, Table 1: Comparison of the differences in matched variables within matched patient sets
Matched Variable Total Mean Difference* Absolute Mean Difference*
Gender (N with different gender) 0 -
Date of initiation of ART (days) -1.7 18.6
Age (years) 0.3 2.3
*Calculated by averaging either the total or absolute difference between the value for each non-KS AIDS patient (N=3) subtracted from the value for the corresponding matched AIDS-KS patient (N=1)