Clinical characteristics, predictors of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome and long-term prognosis in patients with Kaposi sarcoma

Table 4 Cox regression model for mortality

Characteristics	Death (n = 14)	Alive (n = 75)	Unadjusted HR (95% CI)	p value	Adjusted HR (95% CI)	p value
Mortality
HIV-RNA at follow-up^a
<100 copies/mm³	6 (67)	67 (93)
>100 copies/mm³	3 (33)	5 (7)	6.7 (0.81–44.41)	0.04	2.09 (0.33–13.23)	0.433
Platelets at follow-up^b
>100,000/mm³	6 (46)	62 (91)	1.00		1.00
<100,000/mm³	7 (54)	6 (9)	10.16 (2.15–47.53)	0.001	7.79 (1.22–49.43)	0.02

^aDetectable viral load >1000 copies/mm³ at 12-week follow up. Viral load was documented in 81 patients
^bPlatelets <100,000/mm³ at 12-weeks follow-up. 81 patients had platelets count at follow-up

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