title: Risks for All-Cause Mortality: Stratified by Age, Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate and Albuminuria.
abstract: The relative reduction of risk for all-cause mortality among the elderly has been described as attenuated compared to younger subjects, but the risk for all-cause mortality increases with age when absolute risk is considered. The objectives of the present inquiry were to calculate the relative and absolute risks of all-cause mortality based on incidence rate ratios, and summarize these risks for age, gender, and race strata. We conclude that strata-specific risk summaries are more informative than a single all-encompassing risk summary, and that gender- and race-specific strata need to be considered as well as age-specific strata. © 2017 S. Karger AG, Basel.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.
authors.forename: David G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Warnock
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Delanaye
authors.forename: Richard J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Glassock
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000419:Albuminuria / Q000401:mortality* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D005919:Glomerular Filtration Rate / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009026:Mortality / Q000639:trends*; D018570:Risk Assessment
keywords: Absolute risk; Incidence rate ratios; Relative risk; Serum creatinine