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Table 3 Survival predictive factors by Cox proportional hazard models

From: A simple protein-energy wasting score for survival prediction of maintenance hemodialysis patients

Patients characteristics and PEW score

HR

CI min

CI max

P value

Gender (male/female)

1.313

0.437

4.970

 

Diabetes

0.676

0.231

1.761

 

Myocardial infarction

0.920

0.208

3.321

 

Peripheral vascular disease

8.762

2.522

27.134

<0.005

Stroke

0.995

0.308

2.639

 

C-reactive protein

1.009

0.570

1.102

 

KT/V

0.176

0.019

1.766

 

Score 2 versus 0–1

0.214

0.068

0.610

<0.005

Score 3 versus 0–1

0.176

0.054

0.510

<0.005

Score 4 versus 0–1

0.249

0.054

0.857

<0.05

  1. HR hazard ratio, CI confidence interval, Kt/V single pool urea kinetics