Range of hazard and odds ratios of independent risk factors associated with early mortality by region.

Factors included in the table are from the studies that reported risk factors having independent association with early mortality in multivariate analysis. We used most commonly used cutoff values to summarize findings across different studies, therefore factors found associated with early mortality using other definitions were not presented in this table. See {table S3} for complete details. BMI = Body Mass Index, all BMI values are in kg/m2 and <18.5 unless mentioned otherwise; CD4 = CD4 cell count, all CD4 counts are <50 cells/mm3 unless mentioned otherwise; WHO stage 4 = World Health Organization clinical stage 4; Hb = Hemoglobin, hemoglobin values are <8 gm/dL; Age is >40 years unless mentioned otherwise; VL = Viral Load;
1BMI<18.5 vs BMI>25;
2Using the real-case model in Alemu 2010 paper [26];
3Reported by only one study;
4For BMI in the range 17–18.4;
5For BMI<15.9;
6Hazard ratio 2.47 for BMI<17 vs BMI> = 18.5;
7CD4 50 vs CD4 100;
8CD4<25 vs CD4> = 50.