Table 4.

Time-updated Association of Insurance with Mortality in the Longitudinal Study of the Ocular Complications of AIDS Cohort

Time-updated Insurance status*	Unadjusted			Adjusted†
	HR	95% CI	P-value	HR	95% CI	P-value
Private	1.00
Medicare	1.63	1.35–1.97	<0.0001	1.34	1.05–1.70	0.02
Medicaid	1.65	1.32–2.05	<0.0001	1.34	1.01–1.80	0.05
Uninsured	1.44	1.09–1.89	0.009	1.35	0.97–1.88	0.05

^*Participants classified as having private insurance if they had any private insurance and Medicare if they had Medicare with or without Medicaid. Insurance status was updated at every visit.

^†Cox proportional hazard model with staggered entry adjusted for age, race/ethnicity, gender, education, HIV transmission category, insurance status, combination antiretroviral therapy use, CD4+ T cell count, nadir CD4+ T cell count prior to enrollment, HIV viral load, maximum HIV viral load prior to enrollment, Karnofsky performance score, cytomegalovirus retinitis, hepatitis C virus sero-status, hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, renal disease, anemia, year of enrollment and weight.