Figure 3.

The data demonstrate that incrementally higher TG/HDL-C ratios were associated with lower risk of death. Multivariate adjusted hazard ratios of all-cause (A) and cardiovascular (B) mortality associated with time-varying triglyceride/HDL cholesterol (TG/HDL-C) ratios in a Cox model using restricted cubic spines, adjusted for age, sex, race/ethnicity, primary insurance, vascular access type, comorbidities, alcohol dependence, substance abuse, single-pool Kt/V, hemoglobin, white blood cell count, albumin, calcium, phosphorus, intact parathyroid hormone, bicarbonate, total iron binding capacity, ferritin, LDL cholesterol, and bodymass index. A histogram of observed time-varying TG/HDL-C ratio values and a hazard reference ratio of 1 (solid line) is overlaid.