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Table 4 Sensitivity analysis: the association between BMI at age 21 and end-stage renal disease in the southern community cohort study adjusting for diabetes and hypertension and stratified by race

From: Increased body mass index may be associated with greater risk of end-stage renal disease in whites compared to blacks: a nested case–control study

 

Overall

Whites

Black

 

Cases

Controls

ORa

95 % CI

Cases

Controls

ORa

95 % CI

Cases

Controls

ORa

95 % CI

 

N = 589

N = 1816

N = 64

N = 193

  

N = 525

N = 1623

  

BMI Category

        

Underweight

53

213

0.92

0.63, 1.33

2

29

0.20

0.02, 1.73

51

184

1.01

0.68, 1.48

Normal

291

1100

1.00 (referent)

N/A

28

117

1.00 (referent)

N/A

263

983

1.00 (referent)

N/A

Overweight

131

356

1.16

0.89, 1.52

14

33

1.21

0.47, 3.17

117

323

1.18

0.89, 1.57

Obese

114

147

1.82

1.32, 2.51

20

14

2.81

0.99, 8.02

94

133

1.71

1.22, 2.41

  1. Abbreviations: BMI Body Mass Index, CI Confidence Interval, OR odds ratio, N/A not applicable
  2. aAdjusted for education (<high school, completed high school, vocational training or junior college and ≥ college degree), smoking history (never, former and current), diabetes and hypertension. Age, gender and race were matching factors in the conditional logistic models
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