Cause-Specific Mortality in HIV-Positive Patients Who Survived Ten Years after Starting Antiretroviral Therapy

Adam Trickey, Margaret T May, Janne Vehreschild, Niels Obel, Michael John Gill, Heidi Crane, Christoph Boesecke, Hasina Samji, Sophie Grabar, Charles Cazanave, Matthias Cavassini, Leah Shepherd, Antonella d’Arminio Monforte, Colette Smit, Michael Saag, Fiona Lampe, Vicky Hernando, Marta Montero, Robert Zangerle, Amy C Justice, Timothy Sterling, Jose Miro, Suzanne Ingle, Jonathan A C Sterne and Antiretroviral Therapy Cohort Collaboration (art-Cc)

PLOS ONE, 2016, vol. 11, issue 8, 1-16

Abstract: Objectives: To estimate mortality rates and prognostic factors in HIV-positive patients who started combination antiretroviral therapy between 1996–1999 and survived for more than ten years. Methods: We used data from 18 European and North American HIV cohort studies contributing to the Antiretroviral Therapy Cohort Collaboration. We followed up patients from ten years after start of combination antiretroviral therapy. We estimated overall and cause-specific mortality rate ratios for age, sex, transmission through injection drug use, AIDS, CD4 count and HIV-1 RNA. Results: During 50,593 person years 656/13,011 (5%) patients died. Older age, male sex, injecting drug use transmission, AIDS, and low CD4 count and detectable viral replication ten years after starting combination antiretroviral therapy were associated with higher subsequent mortality. CD4 count at ART start did not predict mortality in models adjusted for patient characteristics ten years after start of antiretroviral therapy. The most frequent causes of death (among 340 classified) were non-AIDS cancer, AIDS, cardiovascular, and liver-related disease. Older age was strongly associated with cardiovascular mortality, injecting drug use transmission with non-AIDS infection and liver-related mortality, and low CD4 and detectable viral replication ten years after starting antiretroviral therapy with AIDS mortality. Five-year mortality risk was

Date: 2016
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