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. 2012 Nov 21;12:108. doi: 10.1186/1471-2261-12-108

Table 1.

Patient demographics and disease and treatment characteristics

Characteristic
Overall
Case group
Control group
P-value
  3,858,840 164,463 [%] 3,694,377 [%]  
With chronic kidney disease
66,476
13,445 [8.18]
53,031 [1.44]
<.0001
Without chronic kidney disease
3,792,364
151,018
3,641,346
 
Age group, years
50-59
1,750,009
54,586 [33.19]
1,695,423
<.0001
60-69
1,097,797
50,413 [30.65]
1,047,384
70-79
734,932
45,041 [27.39]
689,891
≥80
276,102
14,423 [8.77]
261,679
 
Sex
Male
1,863,738
125,311 [76.19]
1,738,427 [47.06]
<.0001
Female
1,995,102
39,152
1,955,950
 
Comorbidities
Hypertension
419,678
45,693 [27.8]
373,985[10.1]
<.0001
Hyperlipidemia
60,744
9,521 [5.8]
51,223 [1.4]
<.0001
Smoking-related diagnosis
262,913
17,183 [10.4]
245,730 [6.7]
<.0001
Alcoholism-related diagnosis
28,305
2,891 [1.8]
25,414 [0.7]
<.0001
Uremia
21,526
2,228 [1.4]
19,298 [0.5]
<.0001
Charlson’s comorbidities Index score
0
3,099,342
106,542
2,992,800
0.0336
1
494,593
35,179
459,414
2
178,885
14,215
164,670
3
50,181
5,264
44,917
4
16,497
1,858
14,639
5
5,752
659
5,093
6
2,360
261
2,099
7
1,269
101
1,168
8
6,321
204
6,117
9
2,384
100
2,284
10+
1,256
80
1,176
 
Follow-up in years
0
63,220
2,682
60,538
-
1
65,186
4,115
61,071
2
67,987
4,446
63,541
3
67,136
4,484
62,652
4
3,519,426
144,228
3,375,198
5 75,885 4,508 71,377  

Mann-Whitney U test.