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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 13.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Nephrol. 2012 Jun 13;36(1):19–26. doi: 10.1159/000339439

Table 2.

Study participants classified by strata of index creatinine and Stage of CKD using abbreviated MDRD equation

Serum creatinine at cohort entry
Less than or equal to 1.3 mg/dl 1.4 to 1.6 mg/dl 1.7 to 2.1 mg/dl Greater or equal to 2.2 mg/dl

CKD Stage* CKD Stage* CKD stage* CKD stage*

3a 3b/4/5 3a 3b/4/5 3a 3b/4/5 3a 3b/4/5

Sample Size (Row %) 12027 (98.7%) 160 (1.3%) 22624 (89.1%) 2771 (10.9%) 2527 (15.2%) 14126 (84.8%) 0 15908 (100%)

Age
 ≤63 years 1940 (16.1%) 34 (21.3%) 6125 (27.1%) 99 (3.6%) 1123 (44.4%) 2855 (20.2%) 02 5684 (35.7%)
 64–73 years 3944 (32.8%) 33 (20.6%) 6619 (29.3%) 81 (2.9%) 556 (22.0%) 3404 (24.1%) 0 3841 (24.1%)
 74–80 years 3393 (28.2%) 21 (13.1%) 5572 (24.6%) 1151 (41.5%) 448 (17.7%) 4043 (28.6%) 0 3510 (22.1%)
 ≥81 years 2750 (22.9%) 72 (45.0%) 4308 (19.0%) 1440 (52.0%) 400 (15.8%) 3824 (27.1%) 0 2873 (18.1%)

Gender
 Male 10725 (89.2%) 0 22567 (99.7%) 2432 (87.8%) 2527 (100.0%) 13921 (98.5%) 02 15688 (98.6%)
 Female 1302 (10.8%) 160 (100.0%) 57 (0.3%) 339 (12.2%) 0 205 (1.5%) 0 220 (1.4%)

Ethnicity
 Caucasian 11814 (98.2%)1 160 (100.0%) 19901 (88.0%) 2731 (98.6%) 129 (5.1%) 12695 (89.9%) 02 10678 (67.1%)
 African American 84 (0.7%) 0 2501 (11.1%) 18 (0.6%) 2390 (94.6%) 1272 (9.0%) 0 5004 (31.5%)
 Other 129 (1.1%) 0 222 (1.0%) 22 (0.8%) 8 (0.3%) 159 (1.1%) 0 226 (1.4%)

Diabetes
 Yes 4775 (39.7%)1 57 (35.6%) 10701 (47.3%) 1135 (41.0%) 1317 (52.1%)1 7648 (54.1%) 02 9767 (61.4%)
 No 7252 (60.3%) 103 (64.4%) 11923 (52.7%) 1636 (59.0%) 1210 (47.9%) 6478 (45.9%) 0 6141 (38.6%)

CVD
 Yes 5510 (45.8%)1 160 (45.6%) 11278 (49.8%) 1560 (56.3%) 1177 (46.6%) 8402 (59.5%) 02 9361 (58.8%)
 No 6517 (54.2%) 87 (54.4%) 11346 (50.2%) 1211 (43.7%) 1350 (53.4%) 5724 (40.5%) 0 6547 (41.2%)

Malignancy
 Yes 3323 (27.6%)1 39 (75.6%) 6258 (27.7%) 843 (30.4%) 661 (26.2%) 4137 (29.3%) 02 4057 (25.5%)
 No 8704 (72.4%) 121 (75.6%) 16366 (72.3%) 1928 (69.6%) 1866 (73.8%) 9989 (70.7%) 0 11851 (74.5%)

Hospitalization
 1 (only index hosp.) 8060 (67.0%)1 112 (70.0%) 14648 (64.7%) 1736 (62.6%) 1583 (62.6%) 8513 (60.3%) 02 8313 (52.3%)
 >1 (subsequent hosp.) 3967 (33.0%) 48 (30.0%) 7976 (35.3%) 1035 (37.4%) 944 (37.4%) 5613 (39.7%) 0 7595 (47.7%)

ACE or ARB
 Yes 7509 (62.4%)1 103 (64.4%) 15347 (67.8%) 1798 (64.9%) 1751 (69.3%)1 9832 (69.6%) 02 9644 (60.6%)
 No 4518 (37.6%) 57 (35.6%) 7277 (32.2%) 973 (35.1%) 776 (30.7%) 4294 (30.4%) 0 6264 (39.4%)

Charlson Comorbidity
 0 4979 (41.4%)1 64 (40.0%) 9226 (40.8%) 991 (35.8%) 1188 (47.0%) 5099 (36.1%) 02 6108 (38.4%)
 1 4606 (38.3%) 63 (39.4%) 8587 (38.0%) 1119 (40.4%) 841 (33.3%) 5465 (38.7%) 0 5822 (36.6%)
 ≥2 2442 (20.3%) 33 (20.6%) 4811 (21.3%) 661 (23.9%) 498 (15.2%) 3562 (25.2%) 0 3978 (25.0%)
*

CKD Stage based on estimated GFR using modified MDRD equation on Cr obtained at cohort entry.

1

CKD stage definitions in eGFR (mL/min/1.73m2): stage 3a, eGFR 45–59; stage 3b, eGFR 30–44; stage 4, eGFR 15–29; stage 5, eGFR <15

2

Denotes unable to determine p-value because of empty cells in contingency table. All other p-values significant (p < 0.05).