The adjusted HR of death for patients with CKD was 1.29 (95% CI 0.81–2.05), P = 0.27. When each stage of CKD was evaluated individually in the multivariate model, we found a graded increase in ...

“These results suggest that proteinuria is an important marker that should be considered in future revisions of the CKD staging system”. Current methods for staging CKD are primarily based on ...

Patients were classified into five stages of CKD in accordance with the classification of the National Kidney Foundation (Table 1). The online Social Security Death Index was used in order to ...