Gait speed and hospitalization among ambulatory hemodialysis patients: USRDS special study data

Table 4 Multivariable Cox proportional hazards model predicting index hospitalization/death¹ from baseline gait speed assessment through December, 2011

	2Adjusted hazard ratios (95% CI)	P value
Gait speed/fall history
3Faster walk/no fall history (reference)	1
4Slower walk/no fall history	1.11 (0.79, 1.56)	0.53
Slower walk/fall history	1.54 (1.04, 2.30)	0.03
Faster walk/fall history	1.47 (1.05, 2.05)	0.02
CAD	1.34 (1.01, 1.78)	0.04
Black race	2.09 (1.48, 2.94)	< 0.001
ESRD vintage, yr	1.02 (1.00, 1.04)	0.03

¹Hospitalization events = 271; deaths = 17; ²Adjusted also for age, diabetes, CHF, CVA, PVD, other cardiac diseases, COPD, cancer, hemoglobin level, KDQOL-CF score, assistive device use;

³Faster walk = gait speed ≥ 0.8 m/s;

⁴Slower walk = gait speed < 0.8 m/s. ESRD: End-stage renal disease.