Table 5.

Hazard ratios and 95% confidence interval of 5-year mortality across four groups (2 × 2) of high versus low MAMC or TSF in 792 MHD patients (October 2001 to January 2007)

	Low MAMC and Low TSF	Low MAMC and High TSF	High MAMC and Low TSF	High MAMC and High TSF
Number of subjects	194	202	205	191
Number of deaths	70	51	46	55
Crude mortality	36%	25%	22%	28%
Unadjusted death HR	1	0.66 (0.46 to 0.95)	0.60 (0.41 to 0.87)	0.71 (0.49 to 1.00)
P value	n/a	0.02	<0.01	0.05
case-mix adj. death HR	1	0.61 (0.41 to 0.89)	0.59 (0.39 to 0.88)	0.52 (0.36 to 0.77)
P value	n/a	0.01	<0.001	<0.001