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Renal insufficiency as a predictor of cardiovascular outcomes and mortality in elderly individuals

Linda F. Fried, MD, MPH^*,*, Michael G. Shlipak, MD, MPH, Casey Crump, MD, PhD^||, Anthony J. Bleyer, MD^¶, John S. Gottdiener, MD, FACC^#, Richard A. Kronmal, PhD^||, Lewis H. Kuller, MD, DrPH, FACC^** and Anne B. Newman, MD, MPH^**

^* Renal Section, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Renal-Electrolyte Division, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Medicine Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA
Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
^|| Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
^¶ Section of Nephrology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
^# Division of Cardiology, St. Francis Hospital, Roslyn, New York, USA
^** Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

View larger version (14K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Age-adjusted survival of subjects in Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS), by serum creatinine (mg/dl).