Skip to main content

Table 3 Renal transplant recipient survival analyses stratified by VCAM (abbreviation: CI, confidence interval)

From: Elevated soluble cellular adhesion molecules are associated with increased mortality in a prospective cohort of renal transplant recipients

 

Kaplan-Meier

Cox Regression Analysis

 

Significance

Significance

Exp(B)

CI

VCAMa

    

<1272 ng/ml

<0.001**

0.001**

1

 

1272-1972 ng/ml

  

1.7

0.83, 3.51

>1972 ng/ml

  

3.3

1.7, 6.4

VCAMb

    

<1272 ng/ml

<0.001**

0.030*

1

 

1272-1972 ng/ml

  

1.5

0.73, 3.16

>1972 ng/ml

  

2.4

1.21, 4.81

VCAMc

    

<1272 ng/ml

<0.001**

0.049*

1

 

1272-1972 ng/ml

  

1.4

0.6, 2.9

>1972 ng/ml

  

2.2

1.1, 4.5

  1. Levels of significance (* p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01).
  2. aCox Regression analysis adjusted for age, gender, smoking, diabetes, systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol and HDL cholesterol.
  3. bCox Regression analysis adjusted for age, gender, smoking, diabetes, systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, eGFR and hsCRP.
  4. cCox Regression analysis adjusted for age, gender, smoking, diabetes, systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, eGFR, hsCRP and history of vascular disease at enrolment
Back to article page

BMC Nephrology

ISSN: 1471-2369

Contact us