Comparison of methods for renal risk prediction in patients with type 2 diabetes (ZODIAC-36).

Patients with diabetes are at high risk of death prior to reaching end-stage renal disease, but most models predicting the risk of kidney disease do not take this competing risk into account. We aimed to compare the performance of Cox regression and competing risk models for prediction of early- and...

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Main Authors: Ineke J Riphagen, Nanne Kleefstra, Iefke Drion, Alaa Alkhalaf, Merel van Diepen, Qi Cao, Klaas H Groenier, Gijs W D Landman, Gerjan Navis, Henk J G Bilo, Stephan J L Bakker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4361549?pdf=render