ACTG 175 Trt=0 Data

SAS code to access the data using the ACTG 175 Trt=0 data set.

Brief Description

The original paper describing the trial is Hammer, S. M., Katzenstein, D. A., Hughes, M. D., Gundaker, H., Schooley, R. T., Haubrich, R. H., Henry, W. K., Lederman, M. M., Phair, J. P., Niu, M., Hirsch, M. S., and Merigan, T. C., for the Aids Clinical Trials Group Study 175 Study Team (1996). A trial comparing nucleoside monotherapy with combination therapy in HIV-infected adults with CD4 counts from 200 to 500 per cubic millimeter. The New England Journal of Medicine, 1081-1089.

Linear regression of response = cd4 count at 20 +- 5 weeks (cd420) was used in Tsiatis, A.A., Davidian, M., Zhang, M., and Lu, X. (2008), "Covariate adjustment for two-sample treatment comparisons in randomized clinical trials: A principled yet flexible approach," Statistics in Medicine.

Cox regression of response = time to death (event) was used in Lu X, Tsiatis AA (2008), "Improving the efficiency of the logrank test using auxiliary covariates," Biometrika.

In the text file above, the variables are named

censor          censoring indicator = 1 if dead, = 0 if censored
event           event time
age             age (yrs) at baseline
wtkg            weight (kg) at baseline
hemo            hemophilia (0=no, 1=yes)
homo            homosexual activity (0=no, 1=yes)
drugs           history of IV drug use (0=no, 1=yes)
karnof          Karnofsky score (on a scale of 0-100)
oprior          Non-ZDV antiretroviral therapy pre-175 (0=no, 1=yes)
z30             ZDV in the 30 days prior to 175 (0=no, 1=yes)
zprior          ZDV prior to 175 (0=no, 1=yes)
preanti         # days pre-175 anti-retroviral therapy
race            race (0=White, 1=non-white)
gender          gender (0=F, 1=M)
str2            antiretroviral history (0=naive, 1=experienced)
strat           antiretroviral history stratification
                (1='Antiretroviral Naive',2='> 1 but <= 52 weeks of prior
                antiretroviral therapy',3='> 52 weeks)
symptom         symptomatic indicator (0=asymp, 1=symp)
cd40            baseline cd4
cd420           cd4 count at 20 +- 5 weeks
cd496           cd4 count at 96 +- 5 weeks (missing for a lot of subjects)
r               missingness indicator for cd496
cd80            baseline cd8 count
cd820           cd8 count at 20 +- 5 weeks