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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2011 Nov 22;20(12):2551–2559. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-11-0777

Table 5.

Rate ratios (95% CI)a for cancer by recent CD4 and HIV RNA among HIV-infected subjects

Recent CD4 cells/µL Recent HIV RNA copies/mL


≤200 201–499 ≥10,000 501–9,999
Infection-related
      Kaposi sarcoma 7.5 (5.6, 10.2) 1.9 (1.4, 2.5) 3.8 (3.0, 4.8) 1.2 (0.8, 1.7)
      Non-Hodgkin lymphoma 6.8 (4.2, 10.9) 2.9 (1.8, 4.6) 4.4 (3.2, 6.2) 1.9 (1.2, 2.9
      Anal 3.1 (1.6, 6.1) 2.0 (1.2, 3.4) 0.7 (0.4, 1.3) 0.7 (0.4, 1.4)
      Hodgkin lymphoma 3.7 (1.8, 7.8) 0.9 (0.4, 1.8) 0.9 (0.4, 1.8) 0.6 (0.2, 1.6)
      Oral cavity/pharynx 5.9 (1.8, 19.4) 2.6 (0.9, 7.4) 0.2 (0.0, 1.3) 1.9 (0.8, 4.6)
      Liver 4.3 (1.2, 15.0) 2.5 (0.9, 7.1) 0.4 (0.1, 1.5) 0.2 (0.0, 1.5)
Infection-unrelated
      Prostate 0.7 (0.3, 1.6) 1.1 (0.7, 1.7) 0.5 (0.2, 1.1) 0.5 (0.2, 1.1)
      Lung 2.0 (0.9, 4.1) 0.9 (0.5, 1.6) 0.9 (0.4, 1.9) 0.9 (0.4, 2.1)
      Colorectal 4.8 (1.9, 12.3) 1.7 (0.7, 3.9) 0.5 (0.1, 1.4) 0.6 (0.2, 1.9)
      Melanoma 1.8 (0.6, 6.0) 2.3 (1.0, 5.3) 1.9 (0.8, 4.6) 1.5 (0.6, 3.8)
a

RRs from Poisson regression models with terms for recent CD4 (reference: ≥500 cells/µl), recent HIV RNA (reference: ≤500 copies/ml), age, sex, race/ethnicity, calendar period, KP region, smoking, overweight, alcohol/drug abuse, prior antiretroviral therapy use, HIV risk, and years known HIV-infected.