Research Article

Risk Factors Related to New-Onset Diabetes after Renal Transplantation in Patients of a High Complexity University Hospital in Colombia, 20 Years of Experience

Table 3

Bivariable and multivariable analyses for risk factors associated with NODAT in patients with renal transplantation between 1995 and 2014.

CharacteristicsBivariableMultivariable
OR (95% CI) valueOR (95% CI) value

Age >50 years2.9 (1.8–4.7)<0.00013.18 (1.6–6.3)0.001
Male gender1.27 (0.8–2.0)0.312
Afro-descendant ethnicity1.6 (0.87–2.9)0.1292.74 (1.1–6.5)0.023
BMI >30 kg/m24.2 (1.7–10.0)0.0013.6 (1.3–9.7)0.010
Family history of DM2.15 (1.3–3.6)0.0031.7 (0.9–3.3)0.098
Pretransplant fasting plasma glucose >100 mg/dl3.82 (2.0–7.0)<0.00012.9 (1.4–6.4)0.005
Serum triglycerides >200 mg/dl2.3 (1.4–3.6)<0.00012.5 (1.4–4.4)0.002
Pretransplant hepatitis C antibody test0.4 (0.09–2.0)0.302
Steroid treatment3.7 (0.94–14.0)0.0603.8 (0.32–46)0.286
Treatment with tacrolimus0.69 (0.38–1.26)0.236
Treatment with mTOR inhibitor2.02 (1.0–3.8)0.0341.5 (0.55–4.1)0.417
CMV infection1.89 (1.01–3.5)0.0471.85 (0.7–4.9)0.203
Prophylaxis for CMV0.96 (0.49–1.8)0.917
Retransplant0.65 (0.29–1.43)0.287

NODAT : new-onset diabetes after transplantation; BMI : body mass index; DM : diabetes mellitus; CMV: cytomegalovirus; OR: odds ratio; CI: confidence interval.