Table 2.

The Association between the Different Types of Vascular Access with Patient Mortality as Determined by a Cox Proportional Hazards Model Adjusted for Age, Sex, BMI, Primary Renal Diagnosis, Serum Albumin, Serum Hb, eGFR, Duration of pre ESRD Nephrology Care.

	HR (95% CI)	p value
AVF	Reference	<0.001
AVG	1.600 (1.005-2.548 )	0.048
CAVF	1.652 (1.181-2.311 )	0.003
CAVG	2.264 (1.424-3.599 )	0.001

BMI: body mass index, ESRD: end stage renal disease