Table 4.

Univariate Associations between Selected Risk Factors and Specific Non-AIDS Causes of Death among HIV-Infected Women^*

Risk Factor	Liver Disease (n = 19)	Drug Overdose (n = 16)	Malignancy (n = 12)	Homicide/Suicide/Accident (n = 10)
	Relative Risk (95% Confidence Interval)
Hepatitis C	3.8 (1.4–11)	18 (2.3–134)	3.6 (1.0–14)	0.9 (0.3–3.2)
History of injection drug use and hepatitis C	13 (2.9–54)	22 (2.9–167)	6.6 (1.4–31)	1.0 (0.3–3.5)
Recent use of injection drugs	1.5 (0.4–6.6)	5.9 (2.0–17)	1.3 (0.2–10)	1.4 (0.2–11)
Current smoker	1.2 (0.4–3.9)	5.8 (1.3–26)	2.2 (0.3–19)	2.7 (0.3–22)
Depression	2.4 (0.8–6.8)	4.0 (1.1–14)	10 (1.3–78)	4.0 (0.9–19)
Alcohol	0.9 (0.1–6.9)	3.8 (1.1–14)	No deaths	4.2 (0.9–20)
Cocaine or heroin use	0.3 (0.04–2.0)	2.9 (1.1–8.0)	2.8 (0.8–9.4)	3.2 (0.9–11)

^*There were too few deaths for multivariate analyses. See Table 1 for definitions.

AIDS = acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; HIV = human immunodeficiency virus.