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Table 4 CKD Prevalence (%) and 95% confidence intervals by age and sex: MDRD vs. CKD-EPI

From: A population-based study of prevalence and risk factors of chronic kidney disease in León, Nicaragua

 

Total

Males

Females

 

MDRD*

CKD-EPI

 

MDRD

CKD-EPI

 

MDRD

CKD-EPI

 

Age

N

Prevalence (95% CI)

N

Prevalence (95% CI)

P

N

Prevalence (95% CI)

N

Prevalence (95% CI)

p

N

Prevalence (95% CI)

N

Prevalence (95% CI)

p

18-29

9

1.6 (0.5, 2.7)

6

1.1 (0.2, 2.0)

0.3§

8

3.8 (1.2, 6.4)

5

2.4 (0.3, 4.5)

0.3§

1

0.3 (0.1, 1.7)

1

0.3 (0.1, 1.7)

--

30-39

28

3.8 (2.4, 5.2)

22

3 (1.8, 4.2)

0.01

23

6.9 (4.2, 9.6)

19

5.7 (3.2, 8.2)

0.1§

5

1.3 (0.2, 2.4)

3

0.8 (0.3, 2.2)

0.5§

40-49

40

8.9 (6.3, 11.5)

32

7.1 (4.7, 9.5)

0.005

28

15.4 (10.2, 20.6)

26

14.3 (9.2, 19.4)

0.5§

12

4.5 (2.0, 7.0)

6

2.2 (0.4, 4.0)

0.01

50-59

68

20.1 (15.8, 24.4)

57

16.8 (12.8, 20.8)

0.0009

46

30.9 (23.5, 38.3)

43

28.9 (21.6, 36.2)

0.3§

22

11.6 (7.0, 16.2)

14

7.4 (3.7, 11.1)

0.005

60-70

48

29.9 (23.7, 36.1)

53

25.1 (19.2, 31.0)

0.002

26

34.7 (23.9, 45.5)

25

33.3 (22.6, 44)

1.0§

37

27.2 (19.7, 34.7)

28

20.6 (13.8, 27.4)

0.003

Total

208

9.1 (7.9, 10.3)

170

7.5 (6.4, 8.6)

<0.0001

131

13.8 (11.6, 16.0)

118

12.4 (10.3, 14.5)

0.0003

77

5.8 (4.5, 7.1)

52

3.9 (2.9, 4.9)

<0.0001

  1. *MDRD: Modification of Diet in Renal Disease equation for estimating glomerular filtration rate.
  2. CKD-EPI: Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration equation for estimating glomerular filtration rate.
  3. p-value for Mcnemar’s test for paired data.
  4. §Mcnemar’s exact test used for sparse data (i.e. when value for discordant pair MDRD=’yes’ and CKD-EPI=”no” is less than 5).