Research Article

Incidence and Predictors of Antiretroviral Treatment Modification in HIV-Infected Adults: A Brazilian Historical Cohort from 2001 to 2010

Table 3

Adjusted hazard ratio and 95% confidence interval (95% CI) estimated by Cox proportional hazards regression in multivariate analysis of the historical cohort for first ART modification, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

VariablesaHR (95% CI) value

Sex
 Male1.00
 Female1.62 (1.07–2.45)0.022
AIDS- defining illness
 No1.00
 Yes1.49 (0.98–2.27)0.061
First ART regimen prescribed
 2 NRTI + NNRTI1.00
 2 NRTI + PI2.70 (1.77–4.13)<0.001

aHR: adjusted hazard ratio, ART: antiretroviral therapy, NRTI: nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, NNRTI: nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, and PI: protease inhibitor.
Multivariate analysis: Shoenfeld’s residual test: = 6.63; d.f. = 3; value = 0.452.