Table 3.

- The relative risks of nurses with diabetes and general patients with diabetes requiring dialysis.

Variables	Unadj. HR	P-value	Adj. HR	95% CI		P-value
Nurses or general patients
General (reference)
Nurses	0.31	0.005	0.36	0.16	0.81	0.013
Age
< 25 (reference)
25-34	0.99	0.982	0.63	0.29	1.37	0.240
35-44	1.50	0.256	0.75	0.37	1.54	0.436
45-54	1.50	0.253	0.58	0.28	1.18	0.134
55-64	1.93	0.094	0.50	0.23	1.10	0.087
≥65	2.30	0.077	0.37	0.14	0.94	0.037
Insured salary (NT$)
≤17280 (reference)
17281~22800	1.51	0.121	1.44	0.84	2.45	0.182
22801~28800	1.52	0.132	1.24	0.71	2.15	0.447
28801~36300	0.78	0.445	0.66	0.35	1.27	0.213
36301~45800	0.83	0.496	0.77	0.44	1.33	0.350
45801~57800	0.44	0.023	0.45	0.22	0.91	0.026
≥57801	0.52	0.107	0.57	0.25	1.26	0.164
Urbanization of residence
Level 1 (reference)
Level 2 & 3	1.35	0.069	1.09	0.79	1.51	0.605
Level 4 & 5	1.01	0.979	0.76	0.45	1.28	0.297
Level 6 & 7	1.70	0.109	1.01	0.52	1.95	0.987
Other catastrophic illnesses
No (reference)
Yes	1.03	0.920	0.71	0.37	1.34	0.287
CCI
(reference)
4	5.77	0.009	3.83	1.04	14.18	0.044
≥5	16.45	<0.001	5.64	1.79	17.75	0.003
DCSI
0 (reference)
1	3.26	0.334	2.94	0.27	32.42	0.380
2	117.76	<0.001	103.01	14.14	750.60	<0.001
≥3	475.45	<0.001	400.55	55.72	2879.64	<0.001

CCI, Charlson Comorbidity Index; DCSI, Diabetes Complications Severity Index;

HR, hazard ratio; CI, confidence interval.

It’s 32 New Taiwan Dollar (NT$) per US dollar.

Urbanization level of residence area (overall 7 levels; Level 1 was the most urbanized).

The boldface indicated that p values less than 0.05 are considered statistically significant.