Incidence of CKD in Relation to Quartiles of Waist to height ratio (WheiR) Stratified by Gender.

a Adjusted for age, smoking status, alcohol drinking behavior, regular exercise, hypertension, increased low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, decreased high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, hypertriglyceridemia, hyperuricemia, diabetes mellitus, urine occult blood, hemoglobin and preserved eGFR at baseline.b (model 3) Adjusted for model 2 plus body mass index. Cox proportional-hazards models were used to calculate hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals. Definitions of these confounding factors are shown in Table 1.WheiR, waist to height ratio; CI, confidence interval; Q1, lowest quartiles; Q2, second quartiles; Q3, third quartiles; Q4, highest quartiles