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. 2015 May 22;5(5):e007508. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-007508

Table 2.

Rates and risk factors for virological and immunological failure by cox proportional hazards regression

Virological failure
Immunological failure
Characteristic Failure patients
N (%)
Rate per 100
Patient-Years
HR (95% CI) AHR (95% CI) Failure patients
N (%)
Rate per 100
Patient-Years
HR (95% CI) AHR (95% CI)
Age, years
 18–30 104 (13.0) 6.9 1.00 135 (16.9) 9.3 1.00 1.00
 31–50 165 (13.7) 7.4 1.06 (0.83 to 1.35) 217 (18.1) 9.7 1.05 (0.85 to 1.31) 0.92 (0.74 to 1.15)
 >50 23 (13.5) 6.5 0.97 (0.62 to 1.53) 48 (28.2) 15.4 1.67 (1.20 to 2.32) 1.42 (1.01 to 2.02)
Sex
 Male 225 (13.2) 7.5 1.00 307 (18.1) 10.5 1.00
 Female 67 (14.2) 6.2 0.91 (0.69 to 1.20) 93 (19.7) 8.7 0.93 (0.74 to 1.18)
Infection route
 Heterosexual 147 (13.1) 6.6 1.00 1.00 219 (19.5) 9.9 1.00 1.00
 Homosexual 106 (11.9) 6.7 0.98 (0.76 to 1.25) 1.03 (0.81 to 1.32) 138 (15.5) 9.5 0.88 (0.71 to 1.09) 1.04 (0.83 to 1.31)
 Intravenous drug use 16 (28.1) 15.0 2.27 (1.35 to 3.80) 2.09 (1.05 to 4.17) 18 (31.6) 14.1 1.62 (1.00 to 2.63) 1.52 (0.93 to 2.49)
 Others 23 (23.7) 11.8 1.81 (1.16 to 2.80) 1.48 (0.60 to 3.66) 25 (25.7) 12.8 1.36 (0.90 to 2.06) 1.16 (0.65 to 2.10)
Baseline CD4 count, cells/mm3
 0–49 61 (14.4) 6.6 1.00 132 (32.2) 14.3 1.00 1.00
 50–99 46 (18.3) 9.0 1.34 (0.91 to 1.96) 42 (16.7) 7.7 0.53 (0.37 to 0.74) 0.46 (0.32 to 0.66)
 100–199 86 (13.9) 7.2 1.04 (0.75 to 1.45) 103 (16.6) 9.2 0.58 (0.45 to 0.75) 0.53 (0.41 to 0.70)
 200–349 60 (8.5) 5.2 0.68 (0.47 to 1.01) 91 (12.9) 9.4 0.52 (0.39 to 0.67) 0.96 (0.67 to 1.38)
 ≥350 39 (22.9) 12.5 1.08 (0.68 to 2.06) 28 (16.5) 6.8 0.53 (0.35 to 0.81) 0.68 (0.44 to 1.04)
Baseline viral load, copies/mL
 <10 000 20 (9.7) 4.7 1.00 1.00 44 (21.3) 11.4 1.00
 10 000–49 999 18 (5.8) 2.7 0.58 (0.31 to 1.10) 0.54 (0.28 to 1.02) 49 (15.7) 8.3 0.72 (0.48 to 1.08)
 50 000–99 999 13 (6.8) 3.5 0.73 (0.36 to 1.46) 0.65 (0.34 to 1.35) 20 (10.5) 5.8 0.68 (0.45 to 1.02)
 100 000–999 999 112 (11.6) 7.3 1.36 (0.85 to 2.19) 1.19 (0.73 to 1.94) 152 (15.7) 10.4 0.80 (0.57 to 1.12)
 ≥1 000 000 40 (18.6) 11.4 2.61 (1.52 to 4.48) 2.19 (1.25 to 3.84) 54 (25.1) 15.5 1.50 (0.98 to 2.24)
Baseline WHO stage
 I 17 (7.8) 5.1 1.00 1.00 24 (11.1) 7.7 1.00 1.00
 II 97 (11.1) 6.0 1.27 (0.76 to 2.13) 1.86 (0.80 to 4.33) 115 (13.2) 7.3 1.09 (0.70 to 1.69) 0.96 (0.61 to 1.52)
 Ш 31 (8.7) 3.9 0.88 (0.49 to 1.59) 0.74 (0.27 to 2.07) 88 (24.6) 11.4 1.77 (1.13 to 2.78) 1.69 (1.07 to 2.69)
 IV 147 (20.3) 10.8 2.36 (1.43 to 3.90) 4.61 (2.01 to 10.57) 173 (23.8) 12.9 1.92 (1.25 to 2.94) 2.15 (1.38 to 3.34)

AHR, adjusted HR.