Table 3.

Hazard of all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality at different levels of renal artery calcification

	All-cause mortality (272 deaths)
	Age-gender adjusted HR (95% CI)	risk adjusted* HR (95% CI)	CAC-adjusted	Fully adjusted*** HR (95% CI)	Putative mediator adjusted ****
RAC (yes/no)	1.76 (1.26, 2.45)	1.63 (1.17, 2.29)	1.49 (1.06–2.11)	1.40 (0.99, 1.97)	1.44 (1.02, 2.03)

	Cardiovascular mortality (41 deaths)
	Age-gender adjusted HR (95% CI)	risk adjusted* HR (95% CI)	CAC-adjusted HR (95% CI)	Fully adjusted** HR (95% CI)	Putative mediator adjusted ***
RAC (yes/no)	1.42 (0.73, 2.78)	1.23 (0.61, 2.44)	1.05 (0.52, 2.10)	0.95 (0.48, 1.88)	1.01 (0.50, 2.01)

^*adjusted for smoking, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, and family history of CVD

^**additionally adjusted for log(CAC + 1)

^***additionally adjusted for percentage of other beds with vascular calcification

^****fully adjusted, with additional adjustment for presence of hypertension