Table 4.

Mortality outcomes during treatment for end-stage kidney disease according to indigenous status in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Ethnicity	Patients, n	Follow-up (person-years)	Deaths, n	Crude mortality rate (per 100 person-years)	Age standardized mortality rate (per 100 person-years)	Crude mortality rate ratio	Indigenous age-standardised mortality rate ratio (95% CI)a
Māori	1459	4.84	847	12	8.4	1.32	1.72 (1.50–1.97)
Pacific	929	4.15	389	10.1	6.5	1.11	1.33 (1.16–1.52)
New Zealand European	1814	4.92	810	9.1	4.9	1.00 (ref)	1.00 (ref)

^aMortality rates were age standardized to the 2001 Māori census population