Table 3.
Competing risk models for risk of dialysis within 5 years among patients with newly diagnosed diabetes.
| Variables | Adjusted model A | Adjusted model B | Adjusted model C | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR | 95% CI | p-value | HR | 95% CI | p-value | HR | 95% CI | p-value | |||||
| With or without diabetes complications at diagnosis | |||||||||||||
| No (reference) | – | – | – | – | |||||||||
| Yes | 9.55 | 9.02 | 10.11 | < 0.001 | |||||||||
| DCSI score | |||||||||||||
| 0 (reference) | – | – | – | – | |||||||||
| 1 | 1.97 | 1.78 | 2.17 | < 0.001 | |||||||||
| 2 | 15.33 | 14.37 | 16.36 | < 0.001 | |||||||||
| 3 | 20.42 | 18.61 | 22.42 | < 0.001 | |||||||||
| 4 | 55.05 | 50.32 | 60.22 | < 0.001 | |||||||||
| ≧5 | 67.56 | 59.75 | 76.39 | < 0.001 | |||||||||
| DCSI complications | |||||||||||||
| No complication (reference) | – | – | – | – | |||||||||
| 1 complication | 7.26 | 6.83 | 7.71 | < 0.001 | |||||||||
| 2 complications | 21.66 | 20.11 | 23.33 | < 0.001 | |||||||||
| ≧3 complications | 36.12 | 32.28 | 40.41 | < 0.001 | |||||||||
| Sex | |||||||||||||
| Man (reference) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Woman | 0.78 | 0.74 | 0.82 | < 0.001 | 0.92 | 0.88 | 0.97 | 0.002 | 0.81 | 0.77 | 0.85 | < 0.001 | |
| Age | |||||||||||||
| 20–44 years(reference) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| 45–54 years | 1.22 | 1.12 | 1.32 | < 0.001 | 1.11 | 1.02 | 1.21 | 0.013 | 1.17 | 1.08 | 1.27 | < 0.001 | |
| 55–64 years | 0.91 | 0.84 | 1.00 | 0.054 | 0.79 | 0.72 | 0.86 | < 0.001 | 0.86 | 0.79 | 0.94 | 0.001 | |
| 65–74 years | 0.81 | 0.73 | 0.90 | < 0.001 | 0.65 | 0.59 | 0.73 | < 0.001 | 0.75 | 0.67 | 0.83 | < 0.001 | |
| ≧75 years | 0.63 | 0.57 | 0.70 | < 0.001 | 0.45 | 0.40 | 0.50 | < 0.001 | 0.56 | 0.50 | 0.62 | < 0.001 | |
The above models were adjusted for age, sex, marital status, education level, monthly salary, urbanization of household residential area, Charlson Comorbidity Index score, history of cancer, history of hypertension, history of stroke, enrollment in pay-for-performance diabetes care program, receipt of free adult health examination within 3 years, primary physician’s service volume, primary physician’s level of health-care organization, and primary physician’s ownership of health-care organization.