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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS. 2019 Jun 1;33(7):1187–1195. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000002194

Table 3.

Factors associated with time to virologic failure, stratified by HIV RNA viral load at INSTI initiation.

Characteristic at INSTI initiation Viral Load ≥50 Viral Load <50
Unadjusted HR1 (95% CI) Adjusted HR2 (95% CI) Unadjusted HR1 (95% CI) Adjusted HR2 (95% CI)
INSTI regimen
 EVG/COBI with ≥2 NRTI 1 (ref.) 1 (ref.) 1 (ref.) 1 (ref.)
 RAL with ≥2 NRTI 0.43 (0.22, 0.81) 0.35 (0.18, 0.68) 0.63 (0.23, 1.75) 0.77 (0.27, 2.23)
 DTG with ≥2 NRTI 0.68 (0.37, 1.25) 0.80 (0.42, 1.50) 0.08 (0.01, 0.60) 0.11 (0.01, 0.80)
 RAL with PI 1.10 (0.65, 1.85) 0.59 (0.33, 1.08) 0.78 (0.22, 2.75) 1.03 (0.26, 4.10)
 Other 1.22 (0.73, 2.03) 0.76 (0.41, 1.39) 0.51 (0.12, 2.23) 0.89 (0.18, 4.36)
Sexual risk group
 MSM 0.74 (0.48, 1.16) 0.58 (0.35, 0.93) 0.74 (0.26, 2.09) 0.61 (0.20, 1.83)
 Women 1.09 (0.70, 1.68) 0.79 (0.49, 1.25) 1.53 (0.58, 4.02) 1.35 (0.50, 3.61)
 Heterosexual men 1 (ref.) 1 (ref.) 1 (ref.) 1 (ref.)
African American race 1.41 (0.97, 2.06) 1.13 (0.77, 1.68) 1.55 (0.72, 3.38) 1.25 (0.53, 2.96)
Age, per 10-year increase 0.84 (0.73, 0.98) 0.74 (0.61, 0.89) 0.68 (0.49, 0.94) 0.67 (0.46, 0.98)
CD4, per 100-cell increase 0.78 (0.72, 0.85) 0.82 (0.75, 0.91) 0.95 (0.84, 1.08) 0.96 (0.84, 1.10)
Number of prior ARVs, per 1-drug increase 1.06 (1.02, 1.11) 1.07 (1.01, 1.12) 0.97 (0.86, 1.09) 0.99 (0.86, 1.12)
HIV RNA, per log10 increase 1.35 (1.16, 1.57) 1.14 (0.96, 1.34) N/A N/A

Abbreviations. ARV: antiretroviral. CI: confidence interval. COBI: cobicistat. EVG: elvitegravir. DTG: dolutegravir. HR: hazard ratio. INSTI: integrase strand transfer inhibitor. MSM: men who have sex with men. N/A: not applicable. RAL: raltegravir. Ref.: referent. VL: viral load.

1

Estimates from separate Cox proportional models including only one characteristic.

2

Estimates from Cox proportional hazards models including all variables in the table, except HIV RNA for patients with baseline VL<50.