Risk Factors for Developing BK Virus-Associated Nephropathy: A Single-Center Retrospective Cohort Study of Kidney Transplant Recipients

12 January 2022 : Original article

Camilla Lorant^1ABCDEF*, Gabriel Westman

^1ACDE, Anders Bergqvist^2BE, Bengt von Zur-Mühlen^3AE, Britt-Marie Eriksson^1ACDEF

DOI: 10.12659/AOT.934738

Ann Transplant 2022; 27:e934738

Table 2 Multivariable Cox proportional hazards model of risk factors for BK virus nephropathy after kidney transplantation.

	HR	95% CI	p-value
Male sex	2.02	1.02–4.00	0.044^*
Enhanced induction	1.12	0.49–2.59	0.787
Age	1.09	0.88–1.35	0.441
CMV mismatch	0.92	0.42–2.02	0.839
Rejection treatment	1.22	0.59–2.51	0.591
HR – hazard ratio; CI – confidence interval; CMV – cytomegalovirus. ^* A value of