Research Article

Logistic Regression Model in a Machine Learning Application to Predict Elderly Kidney Transplant Recipients with Worse Renal Function One Year after Kidney Transplant: Elderly KTbot

Table 5

Comparison between the recipient renal function with the CKD-EPI and clinical outcomes after the first year of kidney transplantation amongst the younger and older patients.

Covariables<60 years (n = 100)≥60 years (n = 18)
n (%)n (%)

Serum creatinine (mg/dL)1.2 ± 0.5 (0.5–3.8)1.6 ± 0.6 (0.9–2.8)0.020
Renal function by CKD-EPI equation70.9 ± 25.2 (0–121.6)53.3 ± 21.1 (21.1–91.9)0.006
Clinical outcome of the recipient
 Functioning allograft98 (98.0%)17 (94.4%)0.051
 Death00 (-)01 (5.6%)
 Returned to RRT02 (2.0%)00 (-)

CKD-EPI: chronic kidney disease epidemiology collaboration; RRT: renal replacement therapy; Chi-square test; Student’s t-test; and Mann–Whitney U test.