Volume 15, Number 2—February 2009
Dispatch
Effect of Free Treatment and Surveillance on HIV-Infected Persons Who Have Tuberculosis, Taiwan, 1993–2006
Table 2
Cox regression model of possible risk factors for death among persons coinfected with HIV and tuberculosis, Taiwan, 1993–2006
Risk factor | Hazard ratio | 95% Confidence interval | p value |
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Sex (F) | 1.462 | 0.292–7.303 | 0.6438 |
Age (>45 y) | 2.907 | 1.162–7.272 | 0.0226 |
Sputum smear positive | 2.722 | 1.008–7.349 | 0.0482 |
Pulmonary radiograph abnormal | 7.006 | 0.848–57.916 | 0.0708 |
Pulmonary tuberculosis | 3.169 | 0.641–15.674 | 0.1573 |
Heterosexual | 2.049 | 0.794–5.290 | 0.1333 |
Before availability of free highly active antiretroviral therapy* | 8.398 | 2.170–32.508 | 0.0021 |
Before implementation of national web-based surveillance reporting and management system† | 7.664 | 2.115–27.768 | 0.0019 |
*1993–1996.
†1998–2000.