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Table 3 Characteristics of patients switching an anchor drug class from the first ART regimen from 2011 to 2016

From: Switch rates, time-to-switch, and switch patterns of antiretroviral therapy in people living with human immunodeficiency virus in Japan, in a hospital-claim database

Characteristics

Anchor drug class prescribed in the first ART regimen

NNRTI

(n = 85)

PI

(n = 162)

INSTI

(n = 22)

Age (years)

 Mean ± SD

48.6 ± 11.4

43.6 ± 11.8

44.7 ± 13.4

 Range

24–75

23–81

27–76

Age group (years)

 18–39

21 (24.7)

63 (38.9)

10 (45.5)

 40–59

46 (54.1)

79 (48.8)

8 (36.4)

 ≥ 60

18 (21.2)

20 (12.3)

4 (18.2)

Gender, male

81 (95.3)

146 (90.1)

19 (86.4)

AIDS-defining illnesses

39 (45.9)

66 (40.7)

13 (59.1)

HIV-related diseases

22 (25.9)

33 (20.4)

6 (27.3)

Hypertension

17 (20.0)

23 (14.2)

4 (18.2)

Dyslipidemia

30 (35.3)

41 (25.3)

7 (31.8)

Hepatitis B/C coinfection

11 (12.9)

19 (11.7)

3 (13.6)

Diabetes

26 (30.6)

36 (22.2)

3 (13.6)

Bone disorder

3 (3.5)

4 (2.5)

1 (4.5)

Vascular disease

3 (3.5)

3 (1.9)

1 (4.5)

Psychiatric disorders

11 (12.9)

20 (12.3)

2 (9.1)

Kidney disease

8 (9.4)

8 (4.9)

1 (4.5)

Malignancy

2 (2.4)

9 (5.6)

1 (4.5)

History of hospitalization

11 (12.9)

26 (16.0)

9 (40.9)

Year of ART initiation

 2011

1 (0.6)

 2012

10 (11.8)

19 (11.7)

 2013

14 (16.5)

28 (17.3)

3 (13.6)

 2014

59 (69.4)

99 (61.1)

15 (68.2)

 2015

1 (1.2)

9 (5.6)

2 (9.1)

 2016

1 (1.2)

6 (3.7)

2 (9.1)

  1. ART antiretroviral therapy, NNRTI non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, PI protease inhibitor, INSTI integrase strand transfer inhibitor, SD standard deviation, HIV human immunodeficiency virus
  2. Values are expressed as number (percentage) unless specified otherwise
  3. One patient prescribed an entry inhibitor was excluded from this table