*4.1.5 Inverse correlation between concentrated urine and CD4 cell count and HDL in HIV patients*

In this study high urine creatinine has a high inverse correlation, r = −0.71, with CD4 cell count. A study has documented an association between low CD4 cells count and underweight in HIV subjects [23]. Perhaps, this might account for the high, albeit inverse, correlation between high urine creatinine and CD4 cell count noted in our study. We also observed in our study that high urine creatinine has a high but inverse correlation, r = −0.73, with serum high-density lipoprotein cholesterol. There was dearth of studies that assessed the link between serum high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and high urine creatinine.
