Figure 1).

The relative risk for kidney disease progression based on current systolic blood pressure and urine protein excretion. The relative risk for patients with a current protein excretion of 1.0 g/day or more represents 9336 patients (223 events), and the relative risk for patients with a current urine protein excretion of less than 1.0 g/day represents 13,274 patients (88 events). Modified from reference 9