Adjusted Cox Proportional Hazard Ratios for Mortality after Initiating HIV Treatment.

†Weight-for-age Z-score and Female*ln time were treated as continuous variables. Reference groups for the binary variables include: Age – reference age 3–18 years; CD4 - reference CD4 >10%; chronic diarrhea – reference children not documented to have chronic diarrhea.*13 subjects were missing one or more of the model's predictor variables and were not included in the analysis.‡Female*ln time represents the interaction term of female gender and the natural log of time in weeks since ART initiation.