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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Sep 25.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS. 2008 Feb 19;22(4):489–496. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e3282f47082

Table 4.

Univariate and multivariate Cox proportional hazards models of mortality among AIDS-defining and non-AIDS defining cancer at cancer diagnosis.

No. of deaths HR (95% CI) P value Adjusted HR (95% CI)a P value
AIDS-defining cancer
Age group (years)
 <40 53 1.0 (ref) 1.0 (ref)
 40–49 24 0.94 (0.58–1.52) 0.79 1.05 (0.63–1.76) 0.84
 ≥50 9 1.39 (0.66–2.95) 0.38 2.21 (1.00–4.89) 0.05
Gender
 Male 64 1.0 (ref) 1.0 (ref)
 Female 22 1.30 (0.79–2.14) 0.30 1.96 (1.12–3.48) 0.02
Race
 White 24 1.0 (ref) 1.0 (ref)
 Black 62 1.35 (0.83–2.19) 0.22 1.15 (0.68–1.93) 0.60
Injection drug use 23 1.00 (0.61–1.63) 1.00
HIV-1 RNA <400 copies/mlb 17 0.48 (0.22–1.02) 0.06
CD4 cell count group(cells/μl)
 >350 8 1.0 (ref) 1.0 (ref)
 201–350 4 0.72 (0.22–2.40) 0.60 0.83 (0.25–2.79) 0.76
 51–200 24 1.84 (0.82–4.10) 0.14 2.26 (0.98–5.23) 0.06
 ≤50 47 2.71 (1.27–5.75) 0.01 4.02 (1.75–9.26) 0.001
Non-AIDS-defining cancer
Age group (years)
 <40 9 1.0 (ref) 1.0 (ref)
 40–49 33 1.70 (0.78–3.72) 0.18 1.75 (0.77–3.99) 0.18
 ≥50 30 1.41 (0.64–3.10) 0.39 1.67 (0.71–3.90) 0.24
Gender
 Male 54 1.0 (ref) 1.0 (ref)
 Female 18 1.68 (0.96–2.95) 0.07 1.48 (0.81–2.73) 0.21
Race
 White 13 1.0 (ref) 1.0 (ref)
 Black 59 1.96 (1.07–3.60) 0.03 1.76 (0.95–3.29) 0.07
History of injection drug use 39 1.30 (0.81–2.09) 0.28
HIV-1 RNA <400 copies/mlb 23 0.57 (0.34–0.95) 0.03
CD4 cell count group (cells/μl)
 >350 28 1.0 (ref) 1.0 (ref)
 201–350 17 0.75 (0.41–1.38) 0.36 0.76 (0.41–1.39) 0.37
 51–200 19 1.17 (0.64–2.14) 0.62 1.33 (0.70–2.52) 0.38
 ≤50 8 1.11 (0.48–2.58) 0.80 1.21 (0.50–2.90) 0.67

HR, hazards ratio; CI, confidence interval.

a

Adjusted HR from multivariate model that included age, gender, race, and CD4 cell count at the time of cancer diagnosis. Multivariate models did not include mean values of variables.

b

Reference group are those with HIV-1 RNA ≥400 copies/ml at the time of cancer diagnosis.