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

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