Table 6.

Multivariate survival analysis of the risk factors for renal outcome in patients with lupus nephritis patients.

	Hazard ratio	95% Confidence intervals		P-Value
		Lower	Upper
Multivariate Cox hazard analysis
Sex (Male vs. Female)	0.289	0.109	0.767	0.013
Age (per year)	0.989	0.957	1.023	0.538
Acute kidney injury (present vs. absent)	3.206	1.127	9.118	0.029
Anti-dsDNA antibodies (present vs. absent)	1.999	0.778	5.135	0.150
Arteriolar C4d deposition (present vs. absent)	2.260	1.068	4.782	0.033
Arteriolar C3c deposition (present vs. absent)	2.089	0.927	4.709	0.076
AI score (per point)	1.040	0.927	1.166	0.506
CI score (per point)	1.250	1.049	1.489	0.013
Multivariate Cox hazard analysis
Sex (Male vs. Female)	0.302	0.114	0.803	0.016
Age (per year)	0.985	0.951	1.019	0.379
Acute kidney injury (present vs. absent)	3.142	1.112	8.879	0.031
Anti-dsDNA antibodies (present vs. absent)	2.227	0.846	5.862	0.105
Arteriolar C4d and C3c deposition (present vs. absent)	3.681	1.519	8.921	0.004
AI score (per point)	1.054	0.940	1.183	0.369
CI score (per point)	1.277	1.083	1.504	0.004

dsDNA, double-stranded DNA; AI, activity indices; CI, chronicity indices.