Other Serious Clinical Events
Symptomatic grade 4 events occurred in 73 pa- tients in each study group (hazard ratio, 1.01;
95% CI, 0.73 to 1.39; P = 0.97) (Table 2 and Fig. 2E). Unscheduled hospitalizations for reasons other than events associated with AIDS progression occurred in 262 patients in the immediate-initi- ation group and 287 in the deferred-initiation group (hazard ratio, 0.91; 95% CI, 0.77 to 1.08; P = 0.28) (Table 2).