Fig 1.
Study flowchart.
Table 1.
Clinical and laboratory characteristics at baseline by gender-specific tertile of sCK level.
Table 2.
Crude and fully-adjusted HRs (95% CI) of death according to baseline gender-specific sCK tertiles.
The highest gender-specific sCK tertile is taken as the reference tertile.
Table 3.
Multivariate adjusteda HRs (95% CI) of baseline covariates for death.
Fig 2.
Kaplan-Meier patient survival curves according to gender-specific sCK tertiles.
Kaplan-Meier patient overall survival curve according to gender-specific sCK tertiles. Log-rank test: p<0.001. Fig 2B. Kaplan-Meier pre-ESRD patient survival curve according to gender-specific sCK tertiles. Log-rank test: p<0.001. Fig 2C. Kaplan-Meier renal survival curve according to gender-specific sCK tertiles. Log-rank test: p = 0.9.
Table 4.
Crude and fully-adjusted HRs (95% CI) of death according to time-dependent gender-specific sCK tertiles.