Hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals for the associations between UACR in quartiles and cause-specific mortality (individuals included = 8,472, person years at risk = 95,598).

Participants with missing values in one of the used variables were excluded. &Adjusted for gender and study population. ¤Further adjusted for education, physical activity, smoking habits, body mass index, and alcohol consumption. #Further adjusted for systolic blood pressure, fasting blood glucose and triglycerides. $ptrend is the p-value for a linear trend, pquadr is the p-value for the quadratic term. Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; HR, hazard ratio; UACR, urine albumin creatinine ratio.