title: Mortality in a cohort of HIV-infected adults started on a protease inhibitor-containing therapy: standardization to the general population.
abstract: Death rates in the APROCO cohort of 1,157 HIV-1 infected adults starting for the first time a protease inhibitor-containing therapy were standardized to the 1996 French general population mortality rates stratified by age and gender. Median follow-up was 23 months and mortality rate was 2.2% person-years (95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.6-2.9). Overall mortality was 7.8 times higher than in the general population (95% CI = 5.7-10.4), 4.7 in men and 19.5 in women. Among the 144 patients considered complete responders, the death rate was 1.2% person-years (95% CI = 0.2-3.5) and mortality remained 5.1 times higher (95% CI = 1.0-14.9) than in the general population. Failure of treatment, long-term adverse effects, or less favorable socio-demographic status could explain these trends.
authors.affiliation: INSERM U330, Bordeaux, France.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lewden
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Raffi
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Chêne
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sobel
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Leport
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D019380:Anti-HIV Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D015331:Cohort Studies; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000401:mortality*; D017320:HIV Protease Inhibitors / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D015497:HIV-1; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009026:Mortality; D011446:Prospective Studies; D018894:Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors / Q000627:therapeutic use; D017678:Sex Distribution
chemical_list: D019380:Anti-HIV Agents; D017320:HIV Protease Inhibitors; D018894:Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors