Table 3:
Association between prescription of specific antiretroviral drugs and fasting plasma glucose monitoring rates
| Univariate# | Multivariate~ | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Person-years | Assessments (n) | Crude rate | IRR | 95%CI | P-value | IRR | 95%CI | P-value | |
| ZDV | |||||||||
| No | 30526.5 | 14186 | 0.46 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| Yes | 32090.6 | 12584 | 0.39 | 1.05 | 1.02–1.08 | 0.002 | 1.02 | 0.99–1.05 | 0.191 | 
| d4T | |||||||||
| No | 39671.5 | 19939 | 0.50 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| Yes | 22945.6 | 6831 | 0.30 | 1.05 | 1.02–1.09 | 0.004 | 1.01 | 0.97–1.04 | 0.671 | 
| ddI | |||||||||
| No | 59955.7 | 24146 | 0.40 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| Yes | 2661.5 | 2624 | 0.99 | 1.10 | 1.04–1.17 | 0.001 | 1.05 | 1.00–1.11 | 0.065 | 
| IDV | |||||||||
| No | 60939.5 | 24887 | 0.41 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| Yes | 1677.6 | 1883 | 1.12 | 1.07 | 1.00–1.15 | 0.036 | 0.99 | 0.93–1.06 | 0.842 | 
| LPV | |||||||||
| No | 56315.9 | 20853 | 0.37 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||
| Yes | 6301.2 | 5917 | 0.94 | 1.46 | 1.40–1.53 | <0.001 | 1.43 | 1.37–1.49 | <0.001 | 
adjusted for site and year.
additionally adjusted for all factors significant in multivariable model (Table 2), i.e. sex, age HIV exposure category, CD4 count.
Use of specific antiretroviral drugs was time updated, as such, i.e. patient can contribute to more than one category.
IRR, incidence rate ratio; CI, confidence interval; ZDV, zidovudine; d4T, stavudine; ddI, didanosine; IDV, indinavir; LPV, lopinavir