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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 22.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA. 2012 May 9;307(18):10.1001/jama.2012.3954. doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.3954

Table 2.

Incidence Rates and Adjusted Hazard Ratios (95% CIs) of Clinical Outcomes for those who were Reclassified by the CKD-EPI Equation Compared with those not Reclassified in General Population Cohorts

All-cause mortality
(61,426 events)
Cardiovascular mortality
(16,923 events)
ESRD
(666 events)
MDRD eGFR category
(ml/min/1.73 m2)
Upward re-
classification
(5,586
events)
No re-
classification
(53,601
events)
Downward
re-
classification
(2,239
events)
Upward re-
classification
(1,113
events)
No re-
classification
(14,979
events)
Downward
re-
classification
(831 events)
Upward re-
classification
(60 events)
No re-
classification
(588 events)
Downward
re-
classification
(18 events)
90+
 Crude incidence rate
(per 1,000 person-years)
- 3.8 52.9 - 0.8 22.3 - 0.3 0.4
 Adjusted hazard ratio - reference 1.02
(0.89-1.18)
- reference 1.24
(1.01-1.53)
- reference 1.54
(0.50-4.78)
60-89
 Crude incidence rate
(per 1,000 person-years)
2.2 10.2 95.1 0.4 3.0 46.0 0.1 0.2 2.3
 Adjusted hazard ratio 1.03
(0.98-1.08)
reference 0.98
(0.85-1.14)
0.93
(0.85-1.02)
reference 1.21
(1.01-1.43)
0.47
(0.24-0.93)
reference 4.44
(1.52-13.00)
45-59
 Crude incidence rate
(per 1,000 person-years)
9.9 34.5 111.6 2.7 13.0 52.3 0.5 0.8 1.6
 Adjusted hazard ratio 0.80
(0.74-0.86)
reference 1.15
(1.03-1.27)
0.73
(0.65-0.82)
reference 1.25
(1.07-1.48)
0.49
(0.27-0.88)
reference 2.67
(0.73-9.72)
30-44
 Crude incidence rate
(per 1,000 person-years)
18.2 66.4 134.5 6.0 27.3 56.4 4.6 7.0 13.7
 Adjusted hazard ratio 0.74
(0.61-0.88)
reference 1.11
(0.79-1.55)
0.75
(0.54-1.05)
reference 1.25
(0.68-2.31)
0.95
(0.43-2.07)
reference 1.35
(0.51-3.56)
15-29
 Crude incidence rate
(per 1,000 person-years)
33.4 88.1 - 15.7 33.6 - 59.5 59.7 -
 Adjusted hazard ratio 1.04
(0.51-2.15)
reference - 1.66
(0.44-6.30)
reference - 1.13
(0.36-3.54)
reference -

Abbreviations: CKD-EPI, Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration; MDRD, Modification of Diet in Renal Disease; eGFR, estimated glomerular filtration rate; ESRD, end-stage renal disease.

Adjusted for age, gender, race/ethnicity, smoking, systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, diabetes, history of cardiovascular disease, body mass index, and albuminuria.