Urinary Podocyte Excretion Predicts Urinary Protein Selectivity and Renal Prognosis

Table 3

Possible risk factors for renal prognosis, including HD or eGFR-30% reduction, by multivariate analysis using a Cox proportional hazards model.

	Hazard ratio	95% CI	value
Age	0.93	0.88–0.98	0.007
Sex (m 1/f 0)	0.16	0.03–0.74	0.019
Urinary podocyte	0.29	0.12–0.71	0.007
BW	1.08	1.01–1.12	0.051
SBP (4ds’ mean)	1.06	1.00–1.13	0.025
DBP (4ds’ mean)	0.85	0.75–0.96	0.012
Serum Cr	1.77	1.13–2.77	0.013
Serum IgG	1.001	1.001–1.003	0.004
Urinary protein	1.49	1.10–2.01	0.009
THP	36.66	2.33–576.59	0.010
RI	2470102	150–40735861555	0.003

BW indicates body weight; SBP, systolic blood pressure; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; Cr, creatinine; THP, Tamm–Horsfall protein; RI, resistive index.