Table 5.

Competing risk analysis of the relative hazard of all-cause mortality comparing African Americans with Caucasians, by CRP tertile (transplantation is the competing event)

	Overall (n = 816)	CRP Tertile African Americans Compared with Caucasians (Referent)
		Tertile 1 (n = 272)	Tertile 2 (n = 274)	Tertile 3 (n = 270)
Crude	0.61 (0.50 to 0.74)	0.81 (0.58 to 1.14)	0.53 (0.36 to 0.78)	0.51 (0.38 to 0.68)
Adjusteda	0.77 (0.60 to 0.98)	1.30 (0.90 to 1.87)	0.74 (0.41 to 1.33)	0.60 (0.39 to 0.91)

^aAdjusted for age, sex, dialysis modality, traditional cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors (smoking status, body mass index, diabetes, blood pressure, and cholesterol), prevalent CVD, congestive heart failure, comorbidity score, hemoglobin, serum albumin, CRP, and IL-6 levels.