Table 3.
Time-to-dialysis initiation event
| No. of patients with dialysis initiation event | Average length of observation time until dialysis initiation event (in quarters) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | Mean | STD | Median | Min | Max | |
| Patients with outpatient hyperkalemia (cohort 1a*) | 118 | 10.5 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 |
| Patients without hyperkalemia (cohort 2a*) | 62 | 4.8 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 |
| Patients with chronic hyperkalemia (cohort 1b*) | 51 | 8.7 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 |
| Patients without hyperkalemia (cohort 2b*) | 28 | 4.2 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 |
Note: *refers to the matched cohorts and their respective counterparts