Methods of competing risks analysis of end-stage renal disease and mortality among people with diabetes

Table 1 Estimation of hazard ratio (H.R), 95% confidence interval (C.I), and p-value from the Cox cause-specific and subdistribution hazards models of time from the diabetic diagnosis to ESRD and to death without ESRD

Competing Risk	Model	Covariate	H.R	95% C.I	p-value
ESRD		Male	1.513	1.146 - 1.998	0.004
	Cox
	cause-specific	Age < 40	-	-	-
	hazards model	40 < Age < 6	1.149	0.849 - 1.554	0.368
		60 < Age	1.405	0.891 - 2.215	0.144
	-----------	-----------	------	-----------	-----
	Cox	Male	1.323	1.006 - 1.742	0.045
	subdistribution
	hazards model	Age < 40	-	-	-
		40 < Age < 60	0.923	0.685 - 1.243	0.6
		60 < Age	0.53	0.335 - 0.838	0.007
Death without ESRD
	Cox	Male	1.377	1.243 - 1.525	< 0.0001
	cause-specific
	hazards model	Age < 40	-	-	-
		40 < Age < 60	2.68	2.267 - 3.158	< 0.0001
		60 < Age	10.23	8.653 - 12.09	< 0.0001
	------------	------------	------	------------	------
	Cox	Male	1.36	1.226 - 1.498	< 0.0001
	subdistribution
	hazards model	Age < 40	-	-	-
		40 < Age < 60	2.65	2.248 - 3.126	< 0.0001
		60 < Age	9.96	8.453 - 11.74	< 0.0001

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