Appendix Table 1.

Characteristics of patients at baseline, ART initiation, death, non-AIDS death, HIV-CAUSAL Collaboration 2005–2015.

		General HIV population	U.S. Veterans
At baseline	N	6927	2672
	CD4 count	354 [203,530]	284 [128,471]
	Calendar year	2008 [2006,2011]	2008 [2006,2010]
	Age	55 [52,59]	56 [53,60]
	HIV-RNA	50946 [11700,207703]	37859 [9653,112879]
At ART initiation	N	5160	2087
	CD4 count	272 [171,375]	229 [108,356]
	HIV-RNA	71559 [17000,220895]	57600 [14652,161000]
At death	N	295	339
	CD4 count	340 [180,498]	225 [84,441]
	HIV-RNA	90 [40,20400]	2392 [50,60500]
At non-AIDS death	N	124	136
	CD4 count	360 [240,497]	329 [179,520]
	HIV-RNA	50 [40,22803]	344 [48,18323]