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The proportionality assumptions, verified by visual inspection of the log of the incidence rates, were satisfactorily met. Kaplan�CMeier curves described the survival among patients, still without RRT. Patients were divided into four strata (eGFR?��?15, 10�C14.9, 7.5�C9.9 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRIP S-Cr values. Patients who moved from one eGFR stratum to another were censored in the old stratum and restarted from time 0 in the new. Definite censoring occurred at initiation of RRT. Furthermore, we produced a Kaplan�CMeier survival curve without stratification for eGFR level and compared it to a corresponding curve for patients subjected to dialysis, starting on the day of dialysis initiation. Censoring occurred when a patient underwent renal transplantation. We also fitted a time-dependent Cox model with start of follow-up at eGFR 15?mL?min?1 per 1.73?m2 and mortality with dialysis as a dichotomous (no/yes) variable. The selection of adjusting variables followed the same principles as described previously. All analyses were performed using stata 10.1 (StataCorp LP, http://www.stata.com). There were 1189 patients who fulfilled the inclusion criteria during the initial case finding. We included 901 patients in the follow-up; http://www.selleckchem.com/products/AZD1152-HQPA.html 69 patients died shortly after diagnosis, 83 were too ill to be interviewed, 111 refused to participate in the initial part of the study, an additional six declined to take part in the follow-up phase, 18 were excluded because they had started RRT before the inclusion date and one was excluded because of uncertainty regarding the RRT start date. Mean eGFR at inclusion was 16.1?mL?min?1 per 1.73?m2 (SD 4.0, median 17.0, 25th�C75th percentile 14.2�C18.7, range 1.7�C31.3). Mean follow-up time was 1712?days (SD 653, range 48�C2569?days). At the end of follow-up, on 1 June 2003, 736 patients had started RRT (of whom 309 died), 90 had died before any RRT was initiated and 56 were still alive and had not started RRT. We had information from the Swedish Cause of http://www.selleckchem.com/products/pf-06463922.html Death Registry for 396 (99%) of the patients who died before 1 June 2003. The most common primary cause of death was cardiovascular disease, both for patients who died before RRT was initiated (52%) and for those who had started dialysis (44%). The second most common cause of death was malignancy for patients who died before RRT (19%) and diabetes complications for patients on dialysis (25%). Renal disease was assigned the primary cause of death for 8% of the patients who died before RRT and 10% of the patients who were receiving dialysis. Of the patients who started RRT, 28 had primary renal transplantation and 257 received a transplant later during the follow-up period. Haemodialysis represented 58% of the first dialysis treatment and peritoneal dialysis represented 39%. Most (88.6%) of the patients who received dialysis had the last S-Cr measurement