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. 2012 Apr 6;175(9):950–961. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwr401

Table 5.

Numbers of Infants and Children Meeting Adverse Event Case Definitions in Domains of Interest for the Surveillance Monitoring for ART Toxicities Study and Estimated Prevalence of Adverse Events Between 2007 and 2010

Case Description No. of Evaluated Effective Sample Sizea Meeting Trigger
AE Rate in those Meeting Trigger and With AE Evaluations
Estimated AE Prevalence 95% CI Adjusted AE Prevalence Assuming an 80% Trigger Sensitivity 95% CI
No. of Subjects % No. of Subjects/Total %
Impaired growth 2,238 1,275 351 15.6 74/200 37.0 5.80 4.58, 7.23 7.29 5.93, 8.86
Metabolic abnormality 1,364 934 365 26.8 113/250 45.2 12.10 10.08, 14.36 15.12 12.86, 17.56
Neurologic diagnoses 2,171 2,082 122 5.6 77/117 65.8 3.70 2.93, 4.60 4.61 3.75, 5.60
Neurodevelopmental impairment 1,101 1,101 39 3.5 39/39 100 3.54 2.53, 4.81 4.43 3.31, 5.84
Laboratory toxicity (other than lactate) 2,149 1,322 13 0.6 5/8 62.5 0.38 0.12, 0.88 0.45 0.17, 0.99
Elevated lactate 1,980 1,681 106 5.4 39/90 43 2.32 1.65, 3.16 2.90 2.16, 3.84
Severe language impairment 1,050 1,050 114 10.9 114/114 100 10.86 9.04, 12.90 13.62 11.60, 15.84
Sensorineural or mixed hearing loss 940 745 29 3.1 2/23 8.70 0.27 0.03, 0.97 0.34 0.05, 1.02

Abbreviation: AE, adverse event; CI, confidence interval.

a

Effective sample size calculated based on percentage meeting trigger with complete follow-up to evaluate AE applied to the total number of participants evaluated for the trigger.