Prognostic Factors of Mortality among Adult Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy in India: A Hospital Based Retrospective Cohort Study

Table 2

Distribution of various characteristics before and after start of antiretroviral therapy (ART) among patients.

Characteristics before starting ART			Characteristics after starting ART
	Number	Percentage		Number	Percentage
Functional status (n=285)			Functional status (n=240)
Ambulatory	51	17.9	Ambulatory	1	0.4
Bedridden	6	2.1	Bedridden	1	0.4
Working	228	80.0	Working	238	99.2
Pattern of substance usage (n=285)			Pattern of substance usage (n=285)
Tobacco chewing	13	4.6	Tobacco chewing	14	4.9
Smoking	32	11.2	Smoking	15	5.3
Alcohol consumption	62	21.7	Alcohol consumption	22	7.7
Opportunistic infections present (n=285)			Opportunistic infections present (n=285)
Extra pulmonary tuberculosis	34	11.9	Pulmonary tuberculosis	15	5.3
Pulmonary tuberculosis	28	9.8	Extra pulmonary tuberculosis	9	3.2
Candidiasis	5	1.7	Cytomegalovirus infection	2	0.7
Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia	4	1.4	Toxoplasmosis	2	0.7
Cryptococcal infections	2	0.7	Others	2	0.7
Toxoplasmosis	2	0.7
Others	3	1.0
BMI (Kg per sq.mtrs) of patients before starting ART (n=257)			BMI of patients after 60 months of starting ART (n=67)
Under weight	87	33.9	Under weight	19	28.4
Normal weight	112	43.6	Normal weight	23	34.3
Over weight	25	9.7	Over weight	16	23.9
Obese	33	12.8	Obese	9	13.4
Clinical staging of HIV patients before starting ART (n=285)			Clinical staging of HIV patients after 60 months of starting ART (n=90)
Stage 1	172	60.3	Stage 1	75	83.3
Stage 2	18	6.3	Stage 2	6	6.7
Stage 3	27	9.5	Stage 3	5	5.6
Stage 4	68	23.9	Stage 4	4	4.4
Mean CD4 count (cells/cu.mm) before starting ART (n=285)	381.4±235.9		Mean CD4 count (cells/cu.mm) after 60 months of starting ART (n=62)	596±216.7

Cytomegalovirus infection 1, recurrent respiratory infections 1, and cellulitis 1.
Cryptococcal infections 1 and skin rashes 1.