Table 3.

Serum phosphate levels and all-cause mortality in RS-I and RS-II, adjusted for age, BMI and smoking, follow-up until year 2012

	Men			Women
	no events	HR* (95% CI)	p	no events	HR* (95% CI)	p
RS-I	810/1577	1.58 (1.34–1.87)	< 0.001	821/2154	0.85 (0.71–1.00)	0.056
RS-II	262/1133	1.14 (0.85–1.53)	0.378	207/1361	1.14 (0.81–1.60)	0.439
Studies combined†	1072/2710	1.46 (1.26–1.69)	< 0.001	1028/3515	0.90 (0.77–1.05)	0.176

Statistically significant p-values (<0.05) are highlighted in bold font

*Hazard ratios from Weibull models, expressed per 1 mg/dL (0.32 mmol/L) increase in phosphate levels

^†Studies combined from meta-analyses using fixed-effect models