Table 3.

Frequencies of Specific Causes of Death in the 1597 Patients Who Died, with Crude Incidence Rates per 1000 Person-Years of Follow-up

Cause of death	No (%) of patientsa (n = 1597)	Incidence rate (95% CI) per 1000 years
AIDS
All	792 (49.6)	5.12 (4.78–5.49)
Nonspecified AIDS	190 (11.9)	1.23 (1.07–1.42)
AIDS infection	366 (22.9)	2.37 (2.14–2.62)
AIDS malignancy	236 (14.8)	1.52 (1.34–1.73)
Non-AIDS malignancy	189 (11.8)	1.22 (1.06–1.41)
Non-AIDS infection	131 (8.2)	0.85 (0.71–1.01)
CVDb
All	126 (7.9)	0.81 (0.68–0.97)
MI/IHD	51 (3.2)	0.33 (0.25–0.43)
Stroke	23 (1.4)	0.15 (0.10–0.22)
Other heart disease	52 (3.3)	0.34 (0.26–0.44)
Violencec
All	124 (7.8)	0.80 (0.67–0.96)
Suicide	48 (3.0)	0.31 (0.23–0.41)
Substance abuse	42 (2.6)	0.41 (0.32–0.52)
Other violent death	34 (2.1)	0.22 (0.16–0.31)
Liver related
All	113 (7.1)	0.73 (0.61–0.88)
Hepatitis related	63 (3.9)	0.41 (0.32–0.52)
Other liver related	50 (3.1)	0.32 (0.25–0.43)
Respiratory disease	25 (1.6)	0.16 (0.11–0.24)
Renal failure	24 (1.5)	0.16 (0.10–0.23)
Other causes with n < 20	73 (4.6)	0.47 (0.38–0.59)

NOTE. CI, confidence interval; CVD, cardiovascular disease; MI/IHD, myocardial infarction/ischemic heart disease.

^a39,272 patients with 154,667 years of follow-up.

^bCVD includes MI/IHD, stroke, heart failure/unspecified, and other heart disease.

^cViolence includes homicide, accident, suicide, and substance abuse, as well as ill-defined violent deaths.