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. 2018 Mar 21;5(4):ofy063. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofy063

Table 3.

Bivariate Analysis for Continuous Retention and Viral Suppression at End of Follow-up

Variable Total (n = 68)a,b
Continuous Retention Continuous Viral Suppressionc,d
n/N % P n/N % P
Overall 27/68 40 24/68 35
Age ≥ 45 y .84 .94
 Yes 13/37 37 13/35 37
 No 14/33 42 11/33 33
Sex .43 1
 Male 21/48 44 17/48 35
 Female 6/20 30 7/20 35
Race .02 .17
 Black 19/57 33 18/57 32
 Not black 8/11 73 6/11 55
US born .28 .31
 Yes 17/49 35 15/49 31
 No 10/19 53 9/19 47
English speaker .24 .43
 Yes 22/60 37 20/60 33
 No 5/8 63 4/8 50
History of homelessness .62 .20
 Yes 12/34 35 9/34 26
 No 15/34 44 15/34 44
History of incarceration .99 .21
 Yes 12/31 39 8/31 26
 No 15/37 41 16/37 43
Employed .05 ≤.01
 Yes 8/12 67 9/12 75
 No 19/56 34 15/56 27
Insurance 1 .99
 No insurance/ Ryan White 11/28 40 10/28 36
 Other 16/40 40 14/40 35
Psychiatric disease .76 1
 Yes 9/20 45 7/20 35
 No 18/48 38 17/48 35
Tobacco .61 .10
 Yes 16/44 36 12/44 27
 No 11/24 46 12/24 50
Alcohol .92 .77
 Yes 14/37 38 12/37 32
 No 13/31 42 12/31 39
Illicit drug use 1 .21
 Yes 11/28 40 7/28 25
 No 16/40 40 17/40 42
Known HIV prior to TB diagnosis .76 .89
 Yes 22/53 41 18/53 34
 No 5/15 33 6/14 40
On ART prior to TB diagnosis .99 .99
 Yes 4/9 44 3/9 33
 No 23/59 39 21/59 36
Baseline CD4 < 50 .59 .99
 Yes 8/24 33 8/24 33
 No 19/44 43 16/44 36
ART with DOT .40
 Yes 1/7 14 1/7 14
 No 26/61 43 23/61 38
TB treatment duration ≥9 mo .57 .10
 Yes 17/46 37 13/46 28
 No 10/22 45 11/22 50
Date TB diagnosise .42 .64
 <March 2012 13/38 34 12/38 32
 ≥March 2012 14/30 47 12/30 40
ART during TB therapy .03 .08
 Yes 26/57 46 23/57 40
 No 1/11 9 1/11 9
VS end of TB therapy .04 ≤.01
 Yes 20/39 51 20/39 51
 No 7/29 24 4/29 14
On ART ≥6 mo prior to end of TB treatmentf .88 .99
 Yes 19/40 48 16/40 40
 No 10/17 59 7/17 41

Abbreviations: ART, antiretroviral therapy; DOT, directly observed therapy; TB, tuberculosis; VS, viral suppression.

aSixty-eight patients had ≥1 year of follow-up, 65 patients had ≥2 years of follow-up, and 53 patients had 3 years of follow-up.

bSixty-seven unique subjects, no change in statistical significance when restricted to unique subjects.

cSubjects with missing viral load assumed to have a viral load >200 copies/mL.

dAmong 43 subjects without continuous viral suppression, 31 (72%) had ≥1 viral load >200 copies/mL and 12 (28%) did not have any viral load during follow-up. No change in statistical significance when missing viral load was treated as unknown.

eNot significant when year of TB diagnosis was analyzed as a continuous variable.

fAmong patients who received ART during TB treatment (n = 57).