Table 2.

Summarized adjusted models examining gender differences in referral, activation, and transplantation in potentially eligible and all patients with end-stage kidney disease

Variable	Odds ratio (95% CI) for referral at 1 yr	HR (95% CI) for referral	Activation among those referred (OR)	Transplantation among those activated (HR)
Adjusteda among those without absolute contraindication Gender (W vs. M)b	0.57 (0.35–0.93)	0.72 (0.56–0.93)	0.58 (0.30–1.11)	0.74 (0.51–1.09)
Adjusteda among all patients with ESKD Gender (W vs. M)	0.54 (0.37–0.80)	0.64 (0.51–0.81)

CI, confidence interval; ESKD, end-stage kidney disease; HR, hazard ratio; M, men; OR, odds ratio; W, women.

^aAdjusted for same covariates listed above.

^bThe primary analysis for comparison.