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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 16.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2013 Nov;24(4):1686–1700. doi: 10.1353/hpu.2013.0189

Table 2.

Unadjusted and Adjusted Hazard Ratios (95% Confidence Intervals) among Predictors of Time to End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD)

Predictor Crude hazard ratio
(95% confidence
interval)
Adjusted hazard ratioa
(95% confidence
interval)
Sociodemographics
Sex
   Men (vs. women) 1.69 (1.45, 1.97) 1.51 (1.26, 1.82)
Health insurance coverage
   Uninsured/none Referent Referent
   Medicaid 3.59 (2.40, 5.36) 2.34 (1.54, 3.54)
   Medicare 2.48 (1.67, 3.67) 2.90 (1.92, 4.39)
   Commercial 1.65 (0.58, 4.72) 1.57 (0.54, 4.59)
   Other 2.87 (1.91, 4.29) 1.49 (0.51, 4.34)
Age group × estimated GFRb
Race/ethnicity × estimated GFRb
Clinical predictors of ESRD
   Diabetes 2.59 (2.18, 3.08) 2.00 (1.64, 2.46)
   Cardiovascular disease 0.69 (0.53, 0.90) 0.93 (0.70, 1.23)
   Hypertension 0.86 (0.72, 1.02) 0.95 (0.77, 1.17)
   Log proteinuria per mg/g 2.02 (1.91, 2.13) 1.74 (1.64, 1.85)
   Hemoglobin per g/L 0.76 (0.73, 0.48) 0.87 (0.83, 0.91)
   Serum albumin per g/dL 0.44 (0.40, 0.48) 0.74 (0.65, 0.84)
Non-traditional predictors of ESRD
   HIV/AIDS 0.99 (0.80, 1.22) 0.58 (0.36, 1.04)
   Hepatitis B or C virus 0.72 (0.40, 1.27) 0.61 (0.33, 1.12)
   History of substance abuse 0.67 (0.51, 0.87) 0.45 (0.33, 0.60)
   Non-English speaker 0.63 (0.51, 0.76) 0.87 (0.67, 1.12)
a

Model estimates are based on 10 imputations and are adjusted for baseline age group (referent group is 70+ years), sex, race/ethnicity (referent group is White), health insurance coverage (referent group is uninsured), diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, estimated glomerular filtration rate (EGFR referent group is 45–59 ml/min/1.73 m2), log proteinuria, HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, substance abuse, housing status, non-English language, hemoglobin level and serum albumin concentration.

b

Interaction p<.001 (see Figures 1 and 2)

GFR = Glomerular Filtration Rate