Pretransplant dialysis treatment and vascular calcification of the iliac artery and abdominal aorta in kidney transplant patients

Table 3 Stepwise multiple regression analyses for iliac artery calcification thickness (IACT) or aortic calcification index (ACI) (n = 100)

	Analysis of IACT			Analysis of ACI
	β	95% CI	P value	β	95% CI	P value
Age, years	0.09	0.06 to 0.11	< 0.01	0.76	0.45 to 1.06	< 0.01
Male	0.70	0.33 to 1.07	< 0.01	–	–	–
Diabetes mellitus	0.75	0.28 to 1.22	< 0.01	7.01	1.80 to 12.22	< 0.01
Dialysis vintage, months	0.009	0.005 to 0.013	< 0.01	–	–	–
Systolic blood pressure, mmHg	–	–	–	0.81	0.51 to 1.11	< 0.01
Diastolic blood pressure, mmHg	–	–	–	− 0.60	− 1.02 to − 0.17	< 0.01
Calcimimetics	–	–	–	5.10	0.42 to 9.77	0.03

IACT iliac arteries calcification thickness, ACI aortic calcification index. Plausible predictors (age, gender, diabetes mellitus, pretransplant treatment modality, dialysis vintage, body mass index, past history of cardiovascular disease, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, calcium-based and calcium-free phosphate binder, vitamin D therapy, calcimimetics, HbA1c, parathyroid hormone, calcium, phosphate, and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol) were included in the original model

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