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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 2.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS. 2013 Jan 2;27(1):95–103. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e3283565df1

Table 3. Predictors of pregnancy among HIV-positive women already accessing HIV clinical care at UK CHIC sites in 2000-2009.

Variables Person-
years
Pregnancies Pregnancy
rate
(per 100
person-years)
95% CI Relative
Rate
95% CI p Adjusted
Relative
Rate*
95% CI p
Year of conception** 38,097 1637 4.3 4.1 - 4.5 1.03 1.01-1.05 <0.001 1.05 1.03-1.07 <0.001
Age
group
16-25 years 3486 254 7.3 6.4 - 8.1 1.12 0.98-1.29 0.10 1.12 0.98-1.29 0.11
26-35 years 15,927 1032 6.5 6.1 - 6.9 1.00 - - 1.00 - -
36-49 years 18,684 351 1.9 1.7 -2.1 0.30 0.26-0.34 <0.001 0.29 0.25-0.33 <0.001
ART use
CD4 count
(cells/mm3)
On ART 22,512 890 4.0 3.7 - 4.2 0.82 0.74-0.91 <0.001 0.95 0.85-1.05 0.32
≤200 6073 183 3.0 2.6 - 3.4 0.64 0.54-0.76 <0.001 0.65 0.55-0.77 <0.001
201-350 8841 421 4.8 4.3 - 5.2 1.00 - - 1.00 - -
>350 21,155 981 4.6 4.4 - 4.9 0.98 0.87-1.10 0.71 0.99 0.88-1.11 0.83
NK 2028 52 2.6 1.9 -3.3 0.54 0.41-0.72 <0.001 0.52 0.39-0.68 <0.001
Ethnicity White 6993 203 2.9 2.5 - 3.3 0.62 0.52-0.73 <0.001 0.67 0.57-0.80 <0.001
Black-Caribbean 1483 59 4.0 3.0 - 5.0 0.85 0.65-1.11 0.23 0.75 0.58-0.97 0.03
Black-African 24,837 1173 4.7 4.5 - 5.0 1.00 - - 1.00 - -
Black-other 1004 49 4.9 3.5 - 6.2 1.04 0.77-1.39 0.81 0.94 0.71-1.25 0.68
Other 2069 75 3.6 2.8 - 4.4 0.77 0.59-0.99 0.04 0.71 0.56-0.91 0.01
Not reported 1711 78 4.6 3.6 - 5.5 0.96 0.75-1.23 0.76 0.95 0.75-1.20 0.66
*

Where all variables in the table were included in the model.

**

As year is a continuous variable, RRs refer to an increase of one year.