Table 2. Primary reason for treatment modification during follow-up.
Overall cohort | After Propensity matching | |||||
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Non-STR (n = 2713) |
STR (n = 499) |
p | Non-STR (n = 487) |
STR (n = 487) |
p | |
Patients without treatment modification | 878 (32.4%) | 291 (58.3%) | <0.001 | 181 (37.2%) | 282 (57.9%) | <0.001 |
Reason for treatment modification, n (%) | ||||||
Adverse event | 553 (20.4%) | 156 (31.3%) | <0.001 | 101 (20.7%) | 154 (31.6%) | <0.001 |
Virological failure | 154 (5.7%) | 10 (2.0%) | <0.001 | 20 (4.1%) | 10 (2.1%) | 0.0951 |
Simplification | 723 (26.6%) | 0 (0%) | - | 126 (25.9%) | 0 (0%) | - |
Other | 405 (14.9%) | 42 (8.4%) | <0.001 | 59 (12.1%) | 41 (8.4%) | 0.072 |
STR, single tablet regimen; Other includes: pregnancy (planned or ongoing), patient willingness, poor adherence, drug-drug interaction, enrollment in clinical trial, toxicity prevention such as switch from didanosine or stavudine to other drugs when the toxicities of these molecules were widely recognized.