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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 23.
Published in final edited form as: Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2022 Jun 23;37(7):1317–1329. doi: 10.1093/ndt/gfac040

Table 2. Renal characteristics and primary renal diagnoses, by trial and diabetes status.

Overall Prior DM No prior DM
Characteristics EMPA-KIDNEY EMPA-KIDNEY DAPA-CKD CREDENCE EMPA-KIDNEY DAPA-CKD
Number randomized 6609 3039 2906 4401 3570 1398
eGFR (mL/min/1.73 m2)
  Mean (SD) 37.5 (14.8) 36.0 (13.9) 43.8 (12.6) 56.2 (18.2) 38.7 (15.4) 41.7 (11.7)
uACR (mg/g)
  Median (IQR) 412 (94–1190) 348 (68–1293) 1017 927 (463–1833) 461 (128–1117) 861
Primary renal diagnosis
  Diabetic nephropathy/diabetic kidney disease 2057 (31) 2057 (68) 2510 (86) 4401 (100) 0 (0) 0 (0)
  Hypertensive/renovascular disease 1445 (22) 401 (13) 203 (7)   1044 (29) 494 (35)
  Any glomerular disease 1669 (25) 172 (6) 97 (3) 1497 (42) 598 (43)
    IgA nephropathy 817 (12) 59 (2) 38 (1) 758 (21) 232 (17)
    Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis 195 (3) 34 (1) 22 (1) 161 (5) 93 (7)
    Membranous nephropathy 96 (1) 13 (<1) 10 (<1) 83 (2) 33 (2)
    Minimal change disease 14 (<1) 4 (< 1) 2 (< 1) 10 (<1) 9 (1)
    Other glomerular disease 547 (8) 62 (2) 25 (1) 485 (14) 231 (17)
  Other 808 (12) 203 (7) 49 (2) 605 (17) 139 (10)
    Tubulointerstitial disease (including obstructive) 468 (7) 101 (3) 30 (1) 367 (10) 117 (8)
    Other known 340 (5) 102 (3) 19 (1) 238 (7) 22 (2)
  Unknown 630 (10) 206 (7) 47 (2) 424 (12) 167 (12)
Prior kidney biopsy 1862 (28) 354 (12) 373 (13) 1508 (42) 500 (36)

Values are presented as n (%) unless stated otherwise.

Sources: CREDENCE: N Engl J Med 2019;380:2295–306; DAPA-CKD: NDT 2020;35:1700–11 and Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol 2021;9:22–31.