Patient characteristics for 1451 Indigenous Adults admitted 2005–2010a.

a Excluding patients with an indeterminate western blot and those who died prior to 2005.b Analyzed according to gender within each group.c Excluding 134 patients who resided outside central Australia and 2 patients whose place of residence was unknown. Data are expressed as proportion of total patients tested for each place of residence.d Residents of remote communities relative to the regional center of Alice Springs and excluding 498 Alice Springs residents. Data are expressed as proportion of total patients tested for each quadrant.e Died during observation period.f All pair-wise quadrant comparisons were pg Pair-wise comparisons of urban-residence compared with all other residences were p