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. 2021 Jun 17;3(5):712–721.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.xkme.2021.04.007

Table 2.

Comparison of Hazard Ratio (95% CI) and Relative Time (95% CI) to Composite Event of End-Stage Kidney Disease or >50% Decline in GFR Across Two Different Analytic/Design Strategies and Two Different suPAR Assays

Lognormal Survival Analysisa Study A (ELISA)
Study B (MSD)
Model 1: Fully Adjusted Without eGFRb
Model 2: Fully Adjusted With eGFRc
Model 1: Fully Adjusted Without eGFRb
Model 2: Fully Adjusted With eGFRc
RT (95% CI) P RT (95% CI) P RT (95% CI) P RT (95% CI) P
SuPAR quartiles
 1 1 Ref 1 Ref 1 Ref 1 Ref
 2 (vs 1) 0.67 (0.50-0.89) 0.006 0.76 (0.57-1.02) 0.07 0.99 (0.75-1.31) 0.94 1.18 (0.89-1.58) 0.25
 3 (vs 1) 0.56 (0.42-0.74) <.001 0.72 (0.54-0.96) 0.02 0.57 (0.44-0.75) <.001 0.82 (0.62-1.11) 0.19
 4 (vs 1) 0.44 (0.33-0.58) <.001 0.65 (0.48-0.87) 0.004 0.54 (0.41-0.70) <.001 0.90 (0.66-1.22) 0.49
Type III testd <.001 0.04 <.001 0.089
Cox Regression Analysise Model 1: Fully Adjusted Without eGFRf
Model 2: Fully Adjusted With eGFRg
Model 1: Fully Adjusted Without eGFRf
Model 2: Fully Adjusted With eGFRg
HR (95% CI) P HR (95% CI) P HR (95% CI) P HR (95% CI) P
SuPAR quartiles
 1 1 Ref 1 Ref 1 Ref 1 Ref
 2 (vs 1) 1.87 (1.13-3.09) 0.02 1.44 (0.87-2.39) 0.16 1.23 (0.72-2.10) 0.46 0.85 (0.50-1.47) 0.56
 3 (vs 1) 2.69 (1.64-4.41) <.001 1.71 (1.03-2.84) 0.04 2.33 (1.42-3.84) <.001 1.04 (0.61-1.77) 0.90
 4 (vs 1) 3.36 (2.07-5.46) <.001 1.74 (1.03-2.95) 0.04 3.00 (1.83-4.91) <.001 1.05 (0.60-1.84) 0.87
Type III testd <.001 0.17 <.001 0.82

Differences in the number of composite events arise from different administrative censoring times in the 2 studies.

Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; BP, blood pressure; eGFR, estimated glomerular filtration rate; ELISA, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Quantikine); HR, hazard ratio; MSD, Meso Scale Discovery; Ref, reference; RT, relative time; suPAR, soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor; UPCR, urinary protein-creatinine ratio.

a

For lognormal models, n = 518, events = 170.

b

Model 1: Adjusted for age, gender, race, ethnicity, hypertension (systolic BP percentiles), antihypertensive use, BMI, UPCR category, glomerular diagnosis; n = 23 were omitted due to missing.

c

Model 2: Model 1 plus eGFR; n = 23 were omitted due to missing.

d

Type III tests the overall effect of suPAR across all levels of suPAR.

e

For Cox models, n = 541, events = 184.

f

Model 1: Adjusted for age, gender, hypertension (systolic/diastolic BP percentiles), BMI z score, glomerular diagnosis, log base 2 UPCR.

g

Model 2: Model 1 plus eGFR.