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. 2021 Jun 16;36(11):2094–2105. doi: 10.1093/ndt/gfab200

Table 3.

Association of type of KRT (KT versus HD) with incidence of 28-day COVID-19-related mortality, overall and by reason for COVID-19 screening, presented as HRs with 95% CIs

Total, events (n)
Symptoms, events (n)
Contact/routine, events (n)
Model HD 281 (1174) KT 84 (496) P-value HD 205 (721) KT 75 (424) P-value HD 76 (453) KT 9 (72) P-value
Model 1 Ref. 0.67 (0.52–0.85) 0.001 Ref. 0.57 (0.44–0.75) <0.001 Ref. 0.71 (0.36–1.43) 0.34
Model 2 Ref. 1.14 (0.88–1.47) 0.33 Ref. 1.07 (0.80–1.43) 0.65 Ref. 0.99 (0.49–1.99) 0.97
Model 3 Ref. 1.30 (1.00–1.68) 0.05 Ref. 1.21 (0.90–1.61) 0.21 Ref. 1.15 (0.57–2.34) 0.69
Model 4 Ref. 1.39 (1.07–1.81) 0.02 Ref. 1.32 (0.98–1.77) 0.07 Ref. 1.19 (0.58–2.46) 0.63
Model 5 Ref. 1.78 (1.22–2.61) 0.003 Ref. 2.00 (1.31–3.06) 0.001 Ref. 0.57 (0.17–1.91) 0.36

Model 1: crude; Model 2: age and sex; Model 3: Model 2 + frailty; Model 4: Model 3 + obesity, hypertension, diabetes, heart failure, chronic lung disease and smoking; Model 5: Model 4 + duration of kidney failure and kidney function.