Research Article
Comparison of Performance of Equations for Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate in Chinese Patients with Biopsy-Proven Diabetic Nephropathy
Table 1
Baseline demographic, clinical, and pathological characteristics.
| | Variables | Patients () |
| | Age (years) | | | Gender (male) | 214 (69.5) | | Duration of diabetes (months) | | | Diabetic retinopathy (%) | 138 (44.8) | | Body mass index (kg/m2) | | | Hypertension (%) | 265 (86.0) | | Systolic blood pressure (mmHg) | | | Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg) | | | HbA1C (%) | 7.3 (6.3-8.5) | | Initial proteinuria (g/24 h) | 4.3 (2.0-7.8) | | Serum creatinine (μmol/L) | | | Cystatin C (mg/L) | | | Triglyceride (mmol/L) | | | Total cholesterol (mmol/L) | | | Thyroid-stimulating hormone (mU/L) | 3.15 (1.96-5.60) () | | Free triiodothyronine 3 (pmol/L) | 3.92 (3.39-4.41) () | | Free triiodothyronine 4 (pmol/L) | 14.95 (13.17-16.61) () | | eGFRCKD-EPI-Cr | | | eGFRCKD-EPI-CysC | | | eGFRCKD-EPI-Cr-CysC | | | RAAS inhibitors (%) | 251 (81.5) | | Insulin therapy (%) | 222 (72.1) | | Statins (%) | 177 (57.5) | | Glomerular class | | I | 17 | | IIa | 75 | | IIb | 29 | | III | 140 | | IV | 47 | | Interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy | | 0 | 10 | | 1 | 138 | | 2 | 127 | | 3 | 33 | | Interstitial inflammation | | 0 | 20 | | 1 | 233 | | 2 | 55 | | Arteriolar hyalinosis | | 0 | 34 | | 1 | 162 | | 2 | 112 | | Reach end-stage kidney disease | 131 | | Median kidney survival time (months) | 20 (13-33) |
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Data are presented as the and the median with range or counts and percentages. |
