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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Kidney Int. 2009 Jan 28;75(10):1071–1078. doi: 10.1038/ki.2008.698

Table 4.

Adjusteda risk of adverse outcomes for surrogates of a decreasing rate of creatinine generation among an age-stratified sample of 664 Rochester, Minnesota residents

Urinary creatinine per - s.d.
Muscle mass per - s.d.
Age per s.d. (20 years)
Sex (female)
Adverse outcomes Hazard ratios (95% confidence interval)
Mortality 1.6 (1.2, 2.0) 0.9 (0.6, 1.3) 5.5 (4.1, 7.5) 0.5 (0.3, 1.0)
Cardiovascular disease 1.2 (1.0, 1.6) 0.7 (0.5, 1.0) 3.6 (2.8, 4.6) 1.1 (0.6, 2.2)
Coronary artery disease 0.9 (0.7, 1.2) 0.7 (0.4, 1.1) 3.5 (2.6, 4.8) 1.1 (0.5, 2.2)
Heart failure 1.4 (1.0, 2.0) 0.5 (0.3, 0.9) 5.7 (3.8, 8.6) 1.3 (0.5, 3.1)
Stroke 1.2 (0.8, 1.8) 1.1 (0.7, 2.0) 2.9 (2.1, 4.2) 0.8 (0.3, 2.1)
Peripheral vascular disease 1.2 (0.9, 1.6) 1.0 (0.6, 1.6) 2.8 (2.0, 3.9) 0.5 (0.2, 1.1)
a

Adjusted for all other surrogates; results similar with further adjustment for dietary protein intake and reciprocal serum creatinine.