Effect of antiretroviral therapy initiation time and baseline CD4+ cell counts on AIDS-related mortality among former plasma donors in China: a 21-year retrospective cohort study

• Main Authors: Yongli Yang (Author), Yang Li (Author), Xuening Zhang (Author), Weiping Zhang (Author), Yanmin Ma (Author), Xiaocan Jia (Author), Theodore Gondwe (Author), Yuping Wang (Author), Xuezhong Shi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background The conventional survival analysis model on HIV/AIDS prognosis is the Cox proportional hazard model, which deals with only one event type, death, regardless of the cause. Few studies have used a competing risk model to evaluate the predictors of AIDS-related mortality. Objective To estima...