Survival of AIDS Patients Treated with Traditional Chinese Medicine in Rural Central China: A Retrospective Cohort Study, 2004–2012

Table 2

Hazard ratios for AIDS-related death for baseline variables.

Categories	Cases	Deaths	Unadjusted		Adjusted
			HR (95% CI)	value	AHR (95% CI)	value
Group
TCM + cART	521	115	1		1
cART	375	107	1.32 (1.01, 1.72)	0.04	1.65 (1.24, 2.18)	0.001
Gender
Female	490	92	1		1
Male	406	130	1.87 (1.43, 2.44)	0.001	2.23 (1.69, 2.96)	0.001
Age (years)
<41	433	92	1		1
41–50	338	74	1.02 (0.75, 1.38)	0.919	1.13 (0.83, 1.55)	0.439
>50	126	56	2.43 (1.74, 3.39)	0.001	2.52 (1.77, 3.57)	0.001
Marital status
Married	696	153	1		1
Single/widow(er)	200	47	0.91 (0.66, 1.26)	0.574	0.75 (0.54, 1.04)	0.088
Education level
<6 years	600	160	1		1
>6 years	296	62	0.76 (0.57, 1.02)	0.066	0.71 (0.52, 0.97)	0.032
CD4+ T-cell count (cell/mm^3)
<200	233	95	1		1
200–350	240	59	0.51 (0.37, 0.70)	0.001	0.51 (0.37, 0.71)	0.001
351–500	134	21	0.31 (0.19, 0.50)	0.001	0.36 (0.23, 0.59)	0.001
>500	115	10	0.17 (0.09, 0.32)	0.001	0.18 (0.09, 0.34)	0.001
Unknown	174	37	0.42 (0.28, 0.61)	0.001	0.36 (0.24, 0.54)	0.001

HR, hazard ratio; AHR, adjusted hazard ratio; CI, confidence interval.