Table 3.
Population Attributable Fractions (PAF) for Mortality
| Characteristics | Model 1 |
Model 2 |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MRR (95% CI) | PAF | MRR (95% CI) | PAF | |
| Age (scaled by 10 y) | 1.10 (.83–1.46) | — | 1.29 (.99–1.69) | — |
| Alcohol usea | 2.31 (1.47–3.64) | 32.5% | 2.36 (1.53–3.64) | 33.0% |
| Injection drug use in prior 6 mo | 2.96 (1.42–6.17) | 6.3% | 2.64 (1.27–5.48) | 5.6% |
| Chronic HCV | 0.95 (.58–1.55) | −2.8% | 1.68 (1.08–2.60) | 21.3% |
| HIV positive | 3.75 (2.38–5.91) | 32.3% | 3.19 (2.05–4.99) | 29.3% |
| Cirrhosis | 5.02 (3.12–8.10) | 35.3% | — | — |
Abbreviations: AUDIT, Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test; CI, confidence interval; HCV, hepatitis C virus; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; MRR, mortality rate ratio.
a At least harmful/hazardous on AUDIT.