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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 20.
Published in final edited form as: Kidney Int. 1998 Jul;54(1):236–244. doi: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.1998.00981.x

Table 4.

Medical relative mortality risk factors in 230 hemodialysis patients

Risk factor Alive Died Range RR and 95% CI P value
1 Age (in decades) 153 77 1.9–8.4 1.5 (1.3, 1.8) < 0.0001
2 Diabetes 153 77 1.0–2.5 1.57 (1.4, 1.8) < 0.05
3 Severity 153 77 1.4–2.2 1.8 (1.7, 1.9) < 0.0001
4 Albumin 153 77 0.3–0.8 0.7 (0.6, 0.9) 0.007
5 Dialyzer Type 153 77 0.4–1.1 0.66 (0.4, 1.04) 0.08

Note: Albumin and dialyzer type are controlled for severity.