Table 4.

Association of Breastfeeding With Mortality: Cox Proportional Hazard Model, PEPI-Malawi Study, Blantyre, Malawi, 2004–09

Risk factor	Adjusted hazard ratio	95% CI	P value
NBF (vs BF)	1.78	1.02–3.12	.04
Infant extended ARV prophylaxis (yes vs no)	0.99	0.64–1.54	.96
Maternal HIV disease stage (stage 3 or 4 vs 1 or 2)	1.76	1.16–2.67	.008
Infant CTX prophylaxis (Yes vs no)	0.84	0.55–1.27	.40

NOTE. Excluding infant prophylaxis from this analysis did not change the results; kept in the model to maintain original study design. ARV, Antiretroviral; BF, Breastfeeding; CTX, Cotrimoxazole; NBF, Not breastfeeding.