Death rates in HIV-positive antiretroviral-naive patients with CD4 count greater than 350 cells per microL in Europe and North America: a pooled cohort observational study.
Death rates in HIV-positive antiretroviral-naive patients with CD4 count greater than 350 cells per microL in Europe and North America: a pooled cohort observational study.
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10.1016/s0140-6736(10)60932-4
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发表时间:
2010-07-31
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168.9
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Phillips, Andrew N.
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Lodwick, Rebecca K.;Sabin, Caroline A.;Porter, Kholoud;Ledergerber, Bruno;van Sighem, Ard;Cozzi-Lepri, Alessandro;Khaykin, Pavel;Mocroft, Amanda;Jacobson, Lisa;De Wit, Stephane;Obel, Niels;Castagna, Antonella;Wasmuth, Jan-Christian;Gill, John;Klein, Manna B.;Gange, Stephen;Riera, Melchor;Mussini, Cristina;Gutierrez, Felix;Touloumi, Giota;Carrieri, Patrizia;Guest, Jodie L.;Brockmeyer, Norbert H.;Phillips, Andrew N.
It is unclear whether antiretroviral (ART) naive HIV-positive individuals with high CD4 counts have a raised mortality risk compared with the general population, but this is relevant for considering earlier initiation of antiretroviral therapy. Pooling data from 23 European and North American cohorts, we calculated country-, age-, sex-, and year-standardised mortality ratios (SMRs), stratifying by risk group. Included patients had at least one pre-ART CD4 count above 350 cells/mm3. The association between CD4 count and death rate was evaluated using Poisson regression methods. Of 40,830 patients contributing 80,682 person-years of follow up with CD4 count above 350 cells/mm3, 419 (1.0%) died. The SMRs (95% confidence interval) were 1.30 (1.06-1.58) in homosexual men, and 2.94 (2.28-3.73) and 9.37 (8.13-10.75) in the heterosexual and IDU risk groups respectively. CD4 count above 500 cells/mm3 was associated with a lower death rate than 350-499 cells/mm3: adjusted rate ratios (95% confidence intervals) for 500-699 cells/mm3 and above 700 cells/mm3 were 0.77 (0.61-0.95) and 0.66 (0.52-0.85) respectively. In HIV-infected ART-naive patients with high CD4 counts, death rates were raised compared with the general population. In homosexual men this was modest, suggesting that a proportion of the increased risk in other groups is due to confounding by other factors. Even in this high CD4 count range, lower CD4 count was associated with raised mortality.