ACTG 175 was a randomized clinical trial to compare monotherapy with zidovudine or didanosine with combination therapy with zidovudine and didanosine or zidovudine and zalcitabine in adults infected with the human immunodeficiency virus type I whose CD4 T cell counts were between 200 and 500 per cubic millimeter.
data(ACTG175)
A data frame with 2139 observations on the following 27 variables:
pidnum
patient's ID number
age
age in years at baseline
wtkg
weight in kg at baseline
hemo
hemophilia (0=no, 1=yes)
homo
homosexual activity (0=no, 1=yes)
drugs
history of intravenous drug use (0=no, 1=yes)
karnof
Karnofsky score (on a scale of 0-100)
oprior
non-zidovudine antiretroviral therapy prior to initiation of study treatment (0=no, 1=yes)
z30
zidovudine use in the 30 days prior to treatment initiation (0=no, 1=yes)
zprior
zidovudine use prior to treatment initiation (0=no, 1=yes)
preanti
number of days of previously received antiretroviral therapy
race
race (0=white, 1=non-white)
gender
gender (0=female, 1=male)
str2
antiretroviral history (0=naive, 1=experienced)
strat
antiretroviral history stratification (1='antiretroviral naive', 2='> 1 but \(\leq\) 52 weeks of prior antiretroviral therapy', 3='> 52 weeks')
symptom
symptomatic indicator (0=asymptomatic, 1=symptomatic)
treat
treatment indicator (0=zidovudine only, 1=other therapies)
offtrt
indicator of off-treatment before 96\(\pm\)5 weeks (0=no,1=yes)
cd40
CD4 T cell count at baseline
cd420
CD4 T cell count at 20\(\pm\)5 weeks
cd496
CD4 T cell count at 96\(\pm\)5 weeks (=NA
if missing)
r
missing CD4 T cell count at 96\(\pm\)5 weeks (0=missing, 1=observed)
cd80
CD8 T cell count at baseline
cd820
CD8 T cell count at 20\(\pm\)5 weeks
cens
indicator of observing the event in days
days
number of days until the first occurrence of: (i) a decline in CD4 T cell count of at least 50 (ii) an event indicating progression to AIDS, or (iii) death.
arms
treatment arm (0=zidovudine, 1=zidovudine and didanosine, 2=zidovudine and zalcitabine, 3=didanosine).
The variable days
contains right-censored time-to-event observations. The data set includes
the following post-randomization covariates: CD4 and CD8 T cell count at 20\(\pm\)5
weeks and the indicator of whether or not the patient was taken off-treatment before 96\(\pm\)5 weeks.
Hammer SM, et al. (1996), "A trial comparing nucleoside monotherapy with combination therapy in HIV-infected adults with CD4 cell counts from 200 to 500 per cubic millimeter.", New England Journal of Medicine, 335:1081--1090.