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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Feb 22.
Published in final edited form as: Trop Med Int Health. 2016 Nov 24;22(2):221–231. doi: 10.1111/tmi.12804

Table 2.

Unadjusted and adjusted estimates of attrition at one-year and ever after second-line initiation among patients at four public-sector HIV treatment facilities in Johannesburg, South Africa.



At one-year after second-line initiation (n=1150)1 Ever after second-line initiation (n=318)2


Characteristic Dead or LTF/N (%) Unadjusted HR (95% CI) Adjusted HR (95% CI) Dead or LTF/N (%) Unadjusted HR (95% CI) Adjusted HR (95% CI)


Year of second-line initiation


 2005/06 8/68 (11.8%) Reference Reference 27/68 (39.7%) Reference Reference
 2007/08 39/250 (15.6%) 1.36 (0.64 – 2.91) 1.47 (0.68 – 3.18) 117/250 (46.8%) 1.51 (0.98 – 2.33) 1.64 (1.04 – 2.60)
 2009/10 30/251 (12.0%) 1.09 (0.50 – 2.38) 1.11 (0.48 – 2.57)
 2011/12/13 68/581 (11.7%) 1.03 (0.50 – 2.15) 0.77 (0.27 – 2.16)


Sex


 Male 69/460 (15.0%) Reference Reference 67/122 (54.9%) Reference Reference
 Female 76/690 (11.0%) 0.74 (0.54 – 1.03) 0.89 (0.61 – 1.30) 77/196 (39.3%) 0.75 (0.54 – 1.04) 0.73 (0.49 – 1.08)


Age at initiation


 <30 33/180 (18.3%) Reference Reference 33/54 (61.1%) Reference Reference
 30–34 33/245 (13.5%) 0.72 (0.44 – 1.17) 0.77 (0.47 – 1.27) 35/82 (42.7%) 0.58 (0.36 – 0.93) 0.59 (0.36 – 0.99)
 35–39 20/256 (7.8%) 0.40 (0.23 – 0.70) 0.41 (0.23 – 0.73) 26/63 (41.3%) 0.52 (0.31 – 0.88) 0.52 (0.30 – 0.91)
 40–44 24/207 (11.6%) 0.61 (0.36 – 1.02) 0.61 (0.35 – 1.06) 25/60 (41.7%) 0.47 (0.28 – 0.79) 0.49 (0.28 – 0.85)
 ≥45 35/262 (13.4%) 0.70 (0.44 – 1.13) 0.76 (0.46 – 1.26) 25/59 (42.4%) 0.55 (0.33 – 0.93) 0.48 (0.27 – 0.84)


Viral load (copies/ml)


 <5000 29/319 (9.1%) Reference Reference 30/81 (37.0%) Reference Reference
 5000 – 9999 22/158 (13.9%) 1.59 (0.91 – 2.77) 1.50 (0.85 – 2.64) 27/56 (48.2%) 1.73 (1.03 – 2.91) 1.91 (1.12 – 3.28)
 10000 – 49999 34/337 (10.1%) 1.12 (0.68 – 1.84) 1.00 (0.60 – 1.67) 42/102 (41.2%) 1.22 (0.76 – 1.95) 1.11 (0.68 – 1.81)
 50000 – 99999 17/122 (13.9%) 1.59 (0.87 – 2.90) 1.55 (0.84 – 2.87) 12/26 (46.2%) 1.47 (0.75 – 2.87) 1.39 (0.70 – 2.74)
 ≥100000 43/214 (20.1%) 2.36 (1.47 – 3.78) 1.85 (1.08 – 3.18) 33/53 (62.3%) 2.17 (1.32 – 3.56) 1.64 (0.94 – 2.88)


CD4 count (cells/mm3)


 <50 26/121 (21.5%) 2.19 (1.38 – 3.46) 1.43 (0.83 – 2.46) 20/31 (64.5%) 2.18 (1.30 – 3.64) 1.85 (1.03 – 3.32)
 50–99 14/112 (12.5%) 1.21 (0.68 – 2.17) 0.78 (0.42 – 1.47) 22/37 (59.5%) 1.57 (0.95 – 2.57) 1.33 (0.77 – 2.32)
 100–199 44/323 (13.6%) 1.35 (0.92 – 1.99) 1.16 (0.77 – 1.75) 48/108 (44.4%) 1.24 (0.84 – 1.83) 1.22 (0.80 – 1.86)
 ≥200 61/594 (10.3%) Reference Reference 54/142 (38.0%) Reference Reference


Co-infected with tuberculosis


 No 134/1109 (12.1%) Reference Reference 141/313 (45.1%) Reference Reference
 Yes 11/41 (26.8%) 2.41 (1.31 – 4.46) 2.11 (1.11 – 4.01) 3/5 (60.0%) 1.35 (0.43 – 4.23) 0.98 (0.29 – 3.27)


BMI


 <18.5 15/66 (22.7%) 1.66 (0.96 – 2.88) 1.66 (0.94 – 2.92) 15/22 (68.2%) 1.71 (0.98 – 2.97) 1.31 (0.72 – 2.38)
 18.5–24.9 83/568 (14.6%) Reference Reference 76/154 (49.4%) Reference Reference
 25–29.9 34/315 (10.8%) 0.72 (0.49 – 1.08) 0.83 (0.55 – 1.25) 32/89 (36.0%) 0.65 (0.43 – 0.99) 0.69 (0.45 – 1.05)
 ≥30 13/201 (6.5%) 0.42 (0.24 – 0.76) 0.47 (0.26 – 0.87) 21/53 (39.6%) 0.70 (0.43 – 1.14) 0.81 (0.48 – 1.39)


Anaemia3


 None 82/670 (12.2%) Reference Reference 84/195 (43.1%) Reference Reference
 Mild 38/279 (13.6%) 1.14 (0.78 – 1.68) 0.97 (0.65 – 1.45) 28/68 (41.2%) 1.00 (0.65 – 1.54) 0.90 (0.57 – 1.41)
 Moderate 23/187 (12.3%) 1.03 (0.65 – 1.64) 0.82 (0.49 – 1.37) 28/49 (57.1%) 1.64 (1.07 – 2.52) 1.43 (0.87 – 2.34)
 Severe 2/14 (14.3%) 1.16 (0.29 – 4.73) 0.98 (0.23 – 4.08) 4/6 (66.7%) 1.86 (0.68 – 5.07) 1.42 (0.48 – 4.18)


First ART regimen


 TDF-3TC-EFV 32/196 (16.3%) 1.44 (0.96 – 2.15) 1.57 (0.86 – 2.88)
 d4T-3TC-EFV 93/781 (11.9%) Reference Reference 123/276 (44.6%) Reference Reference
 Other4 20/173 (11.6%) 0.99 (0.61 – 1.61) 1.13 (0.68 – 1.88) 21/42 (50.0%) 1.11 (0.70 – 1.77) 1.07 (0.64 – 1.79)


Second-line ART regimen


 TDF-3TC/EMT-LPVr5 36/350 (10.3%) 0.75 (0.50 – 1.13) 1.21 (0.61 – 2.42) 4/5 (80.0%)
 AZT-3TC-LPVr 46/335 (13.7%) 1.03 (0.70 – 1.51) 1.16 (0.50 – 2.70) 0/1 (0%)
 AZT-ddI-LPVr 63/465 (13.6%) Reference Reference 140/312 (44.9%)


1

One-year analyses include all patients with complete covariate information

2

Final analyses included only those patients who initiated second-line ART between 2005 and 2008 and had complete covariate information

3

None: males: ≥13 g/dL, females: ≥12 g/dL; Mild: males: 11–12 g/dL, females: 11–11.9 g/dL; Moderate: 8–10 g/dL; Severe: <8 g/dL

4

Other regimens include: AZT-3TC-NVP/EFV, d4T-3TC-NVP, TDF-3TC-NVP, TDF-EMT-EFV

5

11 patients initiated TDF-EMT-LPVr