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Flow of patients. As the Japan Renal Data Registry contains data on the histories of CV events at the end of each year, whether subjects had events during 2009 could not be determined for those with histories of CV events at the end of 2008. Thus, subjects with histories of MI, ischemic stroke at baseline were excluded from the analyses when the outcome variables were incident MI, or ischemic stroke, respectively. MI: myocardial infarction, CV: cardiovascular.
