Table 2.
Numbers of cardiovascular events, all-cause mortality, and noncardiovascular mortality and mean change in renal outcome per year, and accompanying event rates per quintile of daily protein intake
| Parameter | Gender-Stratified Quintiles of Daily Protein Intake (g/kg) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First(0.26 to 0.99) | Second(0.96 to 1.13) | Third(1.10 to 1.26) | Fourth(1.22 to 1.42) | Fifth(1.38 to 3.27) | P for Trend | |
| N | 1692 | 1692 | 1693 | 1692 | 1692 | |
| Cardiovascular events (n) | 121 | 116 | 109 | 101 | 119 | <0.001 |
| Event rate (no. of events per 1000 patient-years) | 10.4 | 9.9 | 9.1 | 8.5 | 9.9 | |
| All-cause mortality (n) | 123 | 93 | 79 | 77 | 71 | <0.001 |
| Event rate (no. of events per 1000 patient-years) | 10.3 | 7.7 | 6.4 | 6.3 | 5.8 | |
| Non-cardiovascular mortality (n) | 94 | 65 | 52 | 45 | 48 | <0.001 |
| Event rate (no. of events per 1000 patient-years) | 7.8 | 5.4 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 3.9 | |
| Change in eGFR (ml/min per 1.73 m2/yr) | −0.45 | −0.46 | −0.50 | −0.41 | −0.41 | NS |