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   <dc:title>Mortality According to CD4 Count at Start of Combination Antiretroviral Therapy Among HIV-infected Patients Followed for up to 15 Years After Start of Treatment : Collaborative Cohort Study</dc:title>
   <dc:creator>May, Margaret T.</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Vehreschild, Jorg-Janne</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Trickey, Adam</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Obel, Niels</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Reiss, Peter</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Bonnet, Fabrice</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Mary-Krause, Murielle</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Samji, Hasina</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Cavassini, Matthias</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Gill, Michael John</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Shepherd, Leah C.</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Crane, Heidi</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>D'Arminio Monforte, Antonella</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Burkholder, Greer A.</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Johnson, Margaret M.</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Sobrino-Vegas, Paz</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Domingo Pedrol, Pedro</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Zangerle, Robert</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Justice, Amy C.</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Sterling, Timothy R.</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Miró, José M.</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Sterne, Jonathan A. C.</dc:creator>
   <dc:subject>HIV</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>CD4 count</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Antiretroviral therapy</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Mortality</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Cohort collaboration</dc:subject>
   <dc:description>The strong association of CD4 count at start of combination therapy with subsequent survival in HIV-infected patients diminished during the first 5 years of treatment. After 5 years, lower baseline CD4 counts were not associated with higher mortality. Background. CD4 count at start of combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) is strongly associated with short-term survival, but its association with longer-term survival is less well characterized. Methods. We estimated mortality rates (MRs) by time since start of ART (&lt;0.5, 0.5-0.9, 1-2.9, 3-4.9, 5-9.9, and ≥10 years) among patients from 18 European and North American cohorts who started ART during 1996-2001. Piecewise exponential models stratified by cohort were used to estimate crude and adjusted (for sex, age, transmission risk, period of starting ART [1996-1997, 1998-1999, 2000-2001], and AIDS and human immunodeficiency virus type 1 RNA at baseline) mortality rate ratios (MRRs) by CD4 count at start of ART (0-49, 50-99, 100-199, 200-349, 350-499, ≥500 cells/µL) overall and separately according to time since start of ART. Results. A total of 6344 of 37 496 patients died during 359 219 years of follow-up. The MR per 1000 person-years was 32.8 (95% confidence interval [CI], 30.2-35.5) during the first 6 months, declining to 16.0 (95% CI, 15.4-16.8) during 5-9.9 years and 14.2 (95% CI, 13.3-15.1) after 10 years' duration of ART. During the first year of ART, there was a strong inverse association of CD4 count at start of ART with mortality. This diminished over the next 4 years. The adjusted MRR per CD4 group was 0.97 (95% CI,.94-1.00; P =.054) and 1.02 (95% CI,.98-1.07; P =.32) among patients followed for 5-9.9 and ≥10 years, respectively. Conclusions. After surviving 5 years of ART, the mortality of patients who started ART with low baseline CD4 count converged with mortality of patients with intermediate and high baseline CD4 counts.</dc:description>
   <dc:date>2016</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Article</dc:type>
   <dc:identifier>https://ddd.uab.cat/record/185833</dc:identifier>
   <dc:identifier>urn:10.1093/cid/ciw183</dc:identifier>
   <dc:identifier>urn:oai:ddd.uab.cat:185833</dc:identifier>
   <dc:identifier>urn:pmid:27025828</dc:identifier>
   <dc:identifier>urn:pmcid:PMC4885653</dc:identifier>
   <dc:identifier>urn:pmc-uid:4885653</dc:identifier>
   <dc:identifier>urn:articleid:15376591v62p1571</dc:identifier>
   <dc:identifier>urn:scopus_id:84973483975</dc:identifier>
   <dc:identifier>urn:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:4885653</dc:identifier>
   <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
   <dc:relation>Instituto de Salud Carlos III RD06-00</dc:relation>
   <dc:relation>Clinical infectious diseases (University of Chicago. Press) ; Vol. 62 (march 2016), p. 1571-1577</dc:relation>
   <dc:rights>open access</dc:rights>
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