The Association of Long-Functioning Hemodialysis Vascular Access with Prevalence of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Kidney Transplant Recipients

Table 2

The results of stepwise backward multivariate regression analysis for left ventricular mass (LVM).

Independent variable	𝛽	𝑟 partial	𝑃
Recipient age (per year)	1.91±0.53	0.28	<0.001
Male gender	78.1±12.3	0.46	<0.001
Duration of pretransplant dialysis therapy; (per year)	6.57±3.07	0.17	0.03
Time after transplantation (per year)	−0.61±0.28	−0.17	0.03
eGFR (per 1 mL/min/1.73 m^2)	−0.84±0.29	−0.22	0.005
BMI (per 1 kg/m^2)	5.67±1.21	0.35	<0.001
Patent vascular access	43.6±12.1	0.28	<0.001

Data shown as means ± 95% CI. LVM: left ventricular mass, eGFR: estimated glomerular filtration rate, and BMI: body mass index.