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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 5.
Published in final edited form as: Kidney Int. 2010 Nov 24;79(5):555–562. doi: 10.1038/ki.2010.462

Table 1.

a: Clinical Characteristics of the Participants in Development Datasets

Variable Overall Race-Ethnicity
White and other Black Asian Native American and Hispanic p-values
N 8254 5216 2585 100 353
Age, mean (SD) years 47 (15) 44 (15) 53 (12) 49 (15) 43 (12) <0.001
Age categories N (%) <0.001
    < 40 years 3076 (37) 2464 (47) 422 (16) 36 (36) 154 (44)
    40-65 years 4154 (50) 2149 (41) 1766 (68) 50 (50) 189 (54)
    > 65 years 1024 (12) 603 (11) 397 (16) 14 (11) 10 (3)
SexN (%) <0.001
    Female 3606 (44) 2353 (45) 1019 (39) 41 (41) 193 (55)
    Male 4648(56) 2863 (55) 1566 (61) 59 (59) 160 (45)
Diabetes N (%) <0.001
    Yes 2406 (29) 1885 (36) 280(11) 33 (33) 208(59)
    No 5848 (71) 3331 (64) 2305 (89) 67 (67) 145 (41)
Transplant N (%) <0.001
    Yes 360 (4) 330 (6) 24 (1) 5 (5) 1 (0.3)
    No 7894(96) 4886 (94) 2561(99) 95 (95) 352 (99.7)
GFR mean (SD), ml/min/1.73 m2 68 (40) 73 (43) 55 (27) 57 (31) 90 (45) <0.001
Serum creatinine, mean (SD), mg/dL 1.66 (1.16) 1.58 (1.19) 1.87 (1.09) 1.73 (0.91) 1.23 (1.02) <0.001
Body surface area, mean (SD), m2 1.9 (0.24) 1.90 (0.23) 2.00 (0.25) 1.77 (0.21) 1.91 (0.25) <0.001
Body mass index, mean (SD), kg/m2 28 (6) 27 (5) 31 (7) 26 (5) 31 (9) <0.001
BMI categories N (%) <0.001
    <20 kg/m2 287 (3) 218(4) 60 (2) 4 (4) 5 (1.4)
    20-25 kg/m2 2447 (30) 1896 (36) 446 (17) 40 (40) 65 (18.4)
    26-30 kg/m2 2922 (35) 1930 (37) 857(33) 37 (37) 98 (27.8)
    > 30 kg/m2 2598 (31) 1172 (23) 1222 (47) 19 (19) 185 (52.4)
Table 1b. Clinical Characteristics of the Participants in Validation Datasets)
Variable CKD-EPI (US and Europe)
Non-US and Europe
White and other Black Asian Native American and Hispanic Asian Asian Black p-values
N 3378 384 67 185 248 675 99
Age, mean (SD) years 49 (15) 50 (15) 51 (15) 45 (12) 50 (18) 50 (15) 47 (17) 0.001
Age categories, N (%) <0.001
    < 40 years 978 (29) 112 (29) 19 (28) 68 (37) 95 (38) 207 (31) 42 (42.5)
    40-65 years 1898 (56) 224 (58) 35 (52) 107 (58) 92 (37) 333(49) 42 (42.5)
    > 65 years 502 (15) 48 (13) 13 (19) 10 (5) 61 (25) 135 (20) 15 (15)
Sex, N (%) 0.001
    Female 1513 (45) 184 (48) 32 (48) 130 (70) 112 (45) 328 (49) 49 (49)
    Male 1865 (55) 200 (52) 35 (52) 55 (30) 136 (55) 347 (51) 50 (50)
Diabetes, N (%) <0.001
    Yes 975 (29) 95 (25) 14 (21) 119 (64) 35(14) 21(3) 6 (6)
    No 2403 (71) 289 (75) 53 (79) 66 (67) 213 (86) 654 (97) 93 (94)
Transplant, N (%) <0.001
    Yes 1072 (32) 52 (14) 7 (10) 3 (2) 0 0 0
    No 2306 (68) 332 (86) 60 (90) 182 (98) 0 0 0
GFR, mean (SD), ml/min/1.73 m2 69 (36) 62 (34) 53 (31) 105 (47) 53 (31) 55 (35) 61 (32) <0.001
Serum creatinine, mean (SD), mg/dL 1.48 (0.94) 1.80 (0.29) 1.99 (1.41) 0.9 (0.7) 1.24 (0.56) 2.25 (2.18) 1.77 (1.71) <0.001
Body surface area, mean (SD), m2 1.90 (0.23) 1.95 (0.23) 1.70 (0.20) 1.98 (0.29) 1.62 (0.18) 1.71 (0.18) 1.77 (0.17) <0.001
Body mass index, mean (SD), kg/m2 27 (5) 30 (7) 24 (4) 34 (8) 23 (4) 24 (4) 26 (5) <0.001
BMI categories, N (%) <0.001
    <20 kg/m2 225 (7) 17 (4) 5 (7) 2 (1) 55 (22) 107 (16) 15 (15)
    20-25 kg/m2 1223 (36) 84 (22) 34 (51) 22 (12) 137 (55) 354 (52) 44 (44)
    25-30 kg/m2 1178 (35) 115 (30) 24 (36) 49 (26) 45(18) 181 (27) 20 (20)
    > 30 kg/m2 752 (22) 168 (44) 4 (6) 112 (61) 11 (4) 33 (5) 20 (20)

GFR = glomerular filtration rate. To convert GFR from mL/min per 1.73 m2 to mL/s per 1.73 m2, multiply by 0.0167.

GFR = glomerular filtration rate. To convert GFR from mL/min per 1.73 m2 to mL/s per m2, multiply by 0.0167.