Table 2.
Distribution of Deaths by Period of Time and Treatment Group
| Period | Early ART |
Late ART |
Total |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Mortality Rate (95% CI) per 100 PY | No. | Mortality Rate (95% CI) per 100 PY | No. | Mortality Rate (95% CI) per 100 PY | |
| Overall | 59 | 8.3 (6.4–10.7) | 90 | 13.8 (11.2–16.9) | 149 | 10.9 (9.3–12.8) |
| Inclusion–W2 | 7 | 55.6 (26.5–116.7) | 7 | 56.1 (26.8–117.7) | 14 | 55.9 (33.1–94.4) |
| W2–W8 | 10 | 27.3 (14.7–50.8) | 15 | 41.7 (25.1–69.2) | 25 | 34.5 (23.3–51.0) |
| W8–W26 | 20 | 19.4 (12.5–30.1) | 28 | 28.1 (19.4–40.7) | 48 | 23.7 (17.8–13.2) |
| W26–W50 | 9 | 6.8 (3.6–13.1) | 13 | 10.6 (6.2–18.3) | 22 | 8.7 (5.7–3.2) |
| >W50 | 13 | 3.0 (1.8–5.2) | 27 | 7.0 (4.8–10.3) | 40 | 4.9 (3.6–6.7) |
Abbreviations: ART, antiretroviral therapy; CI, confidence interval; PY, person-year; W, week.