RESEARCH ARTICLE
Regimen Switching After Initial Haart By Race in a Military Cohort
Christina Schofield1, 2, *, Xun Wang1, 5, Patrick Monahan3, Xiuping Chu1, 5, Margaret Glancey1, 5, Anuradha Ganesan1, 5, Jason F. Okulicz4, Brian K. Agan1, 5
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2017Volume: 10
First Page: 195
Last Page: 207
Publisher ID: TOPHJ-10-195
DOI: 10.2174/1874944501710010195
Article History:
Received Date: 20/06/2017Revision Received Date: 31/08/2017
Acceptance Date: 04/09/2017
Electronic publication date: 28/10/2017
Collection year: 2017
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Background:
Prior studies have suggested that HAART switching may vary by ethnicity, but these associations may be confounded by socioeconomic differences between ethnic groups. Utilizing the U.S. military healthcare system, which minimizes many socioeconomic confounders, we analyzed whether HAART switching varies by race/ethnicity.
Methods:
HAART-naïve participants in the U.S. Military HIV Natural History Study who initiated HAART between 1996-2012 and had at least 12-months of follow-up were assessed for factors associated with HAART regimen change (e.g. NNRTI to PI) within one year of initiation. Multiple logistic regression was used to compare those who switched versus those who did not switch regimens.
Results:
2457 participants were evaluated; 91.4% male, 42.3% Caucasian, 42.8% African-American, and 9% Hispanic. In a multivariate analysis, African-Americans had lower odds (OR 0.76, 95% CI 0.65, 0.98) while Hispanics had no significant difference with respect to HAART switching compared to Caucasians; however, Other race was noted to have higher odds (OR 1.77, 95% CI 1.11, 2.83). Additional significantly associated factors included CD4 <200 cells/uL at HAART initiation, higher viral load, prior ARV use, and history of depression.
Conclusion:
In this cohort with open access to healthcare, African-American and Hispanic races were not associated with increased odds of switching HAART regimen at 12 months, but Other race was. The lack of association between race/ethnicity and regimen change suggest that associations previously demonstrated in the literature may be due to socioeconomic or other confounders which are minimized in the military setting.
