Frequency and clinical predictors of coronary artery disease in chronic renal failure renal transplant candidates

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Table 1. Demographic and clinical characteristics of dialysis patients candidates for renal transplantation submitted to coronariography.

	n = 99
Age (years)	54 ± 9.7
Men	63
Race W/B/M/U	80/8/10/1
Diabetes mellitus	60
CHF	11
Hypertension	92
Stroke	11
Dyslipidemia	45
Peripheral vascular disease	14
Smoker	14
Obesity	42
Duration of dialysis (months)	23 (0–204)
Angina/MI	27
CKD etiology
Hypertension	28
Diabetic nephropaty	52
Glomerulopathies	7
Others	12

Note: W/B/M/U, white, black, mixed race, undetermined; CHF, congestive heart failure; MI, miocardial infarction; CKD, chronic kidney disease.

Figure 1. Frequency of coronary heart disease according to the presence of diabetes and angina or prior myocardial infarction.

Table 2. Multiple logistic regression analysis.

		95.0% CI
	OR	Inferior	Superior	p
DM	5.038	1.020	24.891	0.047
PAD	0.519	0.078	3.470	0.498
Angina or AMI	25.260	5.518	115.641	0.000
Dyslipidemia	2.668	0.697	10.219	0.152

Note: OR, odds ratio, CI, confidence interval, DM, diabetes mellitus, PAD, peripheral arterial disease, AMI, acute myocardial infarction.

Figure 2. Frequency of coronary heart disease obtained in this study according to the previously predicted by the formula proposed by Gowdak et al.5.

Figure 3. ROC curve related to the discriminatory power of a previously developed formula5 applied to the present series.

Gowdak LH, Paula FJ, Cesar LA, et al. A new risk score model to predict the presence of significant coronary artery disease in renal transplant candidates. Transplant Res. 2013;2:18

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