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. 2016 Aug 15;11(8):e0160460. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0160460

Table 6. Adjusted hazard ratios (HR) for specific causes of death, adjusted for all variables in the table and stratified by cohort, deaths = 218.

Adjusted HR (95% CI)
Cause of death N (%) Age ≥60 vs. <60 years Female vs. Male IDU vs. non-IDU CD4 <200 vs. ≥200 cells/μL HIV-1 RNA >50 vs. ≤50 copies/mL Prior AIDS diagnosis 10 years after ART start vs. no AIDS
AIDS 35 (16%) 1.08 (0.33, 3.58) 0.38 (0.13, 1.09) 1.24 (0.52, 2.96) 5.32 (2.49, 11.4) 4.90 (2.30, 10.4) 1.75 (1.16, 2.65)
Non-AIDS 145 (67%) 4.35 (2.97, 6.39) 0.70 (0.45, 1.06) 3.40 (2.26, 5.12) 2.42 (1.49, 3.94) 0.95 (0.62, 1.45) 1.58 (1.27, 1.95)
Cardiovascular disease 22 (10%) 8.95 (3.63, 22.1) 0.54 (0.16, 1.84) 2.20 (0.59, 8.23) 2.70 (0.71, 10.3) 1.30 (0.44, 3.80) 1.49 (0.84, 2.63)
Liver related 18 (8%) 1.65 (0.36, 7.50) NA 3.84 (1.31, 11.2) 3.37 (1.11, 10.2) 2.37 (0.87, 6.40) 1.85 (1.02, 3.36)
Non-AIDS, non-liver malignancies 45 (21%) 3.39 (1.71, 6.70) 0.81 (0.39, 1.68) 1.79 (0.77, 4.20) 1.62 (0.55, 4.80) 0.58 (0.24, 1.42) 0.88, 1.97)
Suicide/accident 13 (6%) 2.55 (0.65, 10.0) 1.28 (0.39, 4.24) 2.45 (0.62, 9.69) 2.19 (0.42, 11.34) 0.65 (0.13, 3.17) 2.45 (1.25, 4.80)
Other* 47 (22%) 5.71 (2.84, 11.5) 0.85 (0.42, 1.73) 6.21 (3.14, 12.3) 2.57 (1.11, 5.95) 0.93 (0.44, 1.95) 1.52 (1.04, 2.21)
Unknown 38 (17%) 4.72 (2.28, 9.77) 0.50 (0.19, 1.27) 3.33 (1.48, 7.53) 3.38 (1.31, 8.74) 0.61 (0.24, 1.55) 1.15 (0.73, 1.83)

IDU: injection drug use, CI: confidence interval

* Causes with fewer than 10 deaths: these were non-AIDS Infection (8); heart or vascular (6); respiratory disease (5); chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (4); renal failure (4); substance abuse (4); digestive system (4); central nervous system (3); lung embolus (1); other causes not included in CoDe classification system (15)