Univariate Analysis 1: ARM as a covariate

##           Variable.Name    Beta se.Beta P.value
## 1                   AGE  0.0307  0.0269  0.2570
## 2                   SEX  1.2598  0.7684  0.1045
## 3            RACE_ASIAN  2.0939  0.8137  0.0117
## 4            RACE_OTHER -0.2029  1.7380  0.9073
## 5                   BMI  0.1402  0.0747  0.0635
## 6                 DIABP -0.0098  0.0336  0.7724
## 7                 SYSBP  0.0232  0.0201  0.2513
## 8                  CAPD -2.0034  1.7720  0.2611
## 9               vantage  0.1291  0.2084  0.5370
## 10             Diabetes  0.7515  0.8132  0.3578
## 11                  SGA  1.2957  0.8918  0.1496
## 12              DrainWT  0.0301  0.0248  0.2278
## 13       Baseline.HBA1C  0.1413  0.3675  0.7016
## 14         Baseline.HGB -0.0095  0.0283  0.7396
## 15        Baseline.UREA  0.2096  0.0645  0.0016
## 16        Baseline.CHOL -0.1596  0.2404  0.5085
## 17         Baseline.LDL -0.2335  0.2910  0.4244
## 18         Baseline.HDL -0.1953  0.9537  0.8382
## 19       Baseline.ApoA1  0.0025  0.0142  0.8589
## 20        Baseline.ApoB -0.0193  0.0135  0.1562
## 21 Baseline.Lipoprotein -0.0102  0.0169  0.5500
## 22  Baseline.Proinsulin  0.0071  0.0031  0.0238
## 23   Baseline.C.Peptide  0.0000  0.0001  0.7248
## 24     Baseline.Insulin  0.0006  0.0003  0.0722
## 25 Baseline.Pre.Albumin -0.0036  0.0480  0.9404
## 26        Baseline.VLDL -0.0264  0.2832  0.9260
## 27     Baseline.Protein  0.0063  0.0130  0.6318
## 28        Baseline.EQ5D  0.0175  0.0210  0.4072

Univariate Analysis 2: ARM as a factor

##           Variable.Name    Beta se.Beta P.value
## 1                   ARM  1.3132  0.7749  0.0934
## 2                   AGE  0.0289  0.0272  0.2907
## 3                   SEX  1.2244  0.7765  0.1182
## 4            RACE_ASIAN  2.0698  0.8234  0.0136
## 5            RACE_OTHER -0.0095  1.7556  0.9957
## 6                   BMI  0.1187  0.0750  0.1169
## 7                 DIABP -0.0052  0.0338  0.8789
## 8                 SYSBP  0.0241  0.0203  0.2372
## 9                  CAPD -2.3478  1.7706  0.1880
## 10              vantage  0.1501  0.2098  0.4762
## 11             Diabetes  0.7120  0.8212  0.3881
## 12                  SGA  1.2405  0.9010  0.1718
## 13              DrainWT  0.0224  0.0247  0.3671
## 14       Baseline.HBA1C  0.1115  0.3704  0.7641
## 15         Baseline.HGB -0.0123  0.0288  0.6718
## 16        Baseline.UREA  0.2021  0.0654  0.0026
## 17        Baseline.CHOL -0.1975  0.2413  0.4152
## 18         Baseline.LDL -0.2264  0.2938  0.4429
## 19         Baseline.HDL -0.2964  0.9607  0.7583
## 20       Baseline.ApoA1  0.0013  0.0143  0.9274
## 21        Baseline.ApoB -0.0197  0.0136  0.1504
## 22 Baseline.Lipoprotein -0.0058  0.0170  0.7314
## 23  Baseline.Proinsulin  0.0065  0.0031  0.0399
## 24   Baseline.C.Peptide  0.0000  0.0001  0.7195
## 25     Baseline.Insulin  0.0006  0.0004  0.0710
## 26 Baseline.Pre.Albumin -0.0096  0.0484  0.8429
## 27        Baseline.VLDL -0.0835  0.2837  0.7692
## 28     Baseline.Protein  0.0038  0.0131  0.7713
## 29        Baseline.EQ5D  0.0180  0.0212  0.3978

Stepwise Regression using AIC with both direction

## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = Final.C.Alb ~ Baseline.C.Alb + ARM + AGE + RACE + 
##     BMI + CAPD + DrainWT + Baseline.UREA + Baseline.CHOL + Baseline.ApoB + 
##     Baseline.C.Peptide + Baseline.Insulin + Baseline.Protein, 
##     data = dat)
## 
## Residuals:
##     Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max 
## -6.1641 -2.4775 -0.1544  2.0318  9.4324 
## 
## Coefficients:
##                      Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)   
## (Intercept)        -3.260e+00  3.650e+00  -0.893  0.37436   
## Baseline.C.Alb      2.901e-01  9.183e-02   3.159  0.00222 **
## ARMExtraneal        1.871e+00  7.598e-01   2.463  0.01590 * 
## AGE                 2.967e-02  3.145e-02   0.943  0.34835   
## RACEASIAN           1.586e+00  9.172e-01   1.729  0.08769 . 
## RACEOTHER          -2.897e-01  1.999e+00  -0.145  0.88512   
## BMI                 1.298e-01  1.324e-01   0.980  0.33002   
## CAPDAPD            -2.174e+00  1.708e+00  -1.273  0.20669   
## DrainWT             1.286e-02  4.231e-02   0.304  0.76190   
## Baseline.UREA       2.234e-01  7.373e-02   3.030  0.00328 **
## Baseline.CHOL       4.998e-01  3.608e-01   1.385  0.16983   
## Baseline.ApoB      -3.783e-02  1.989e-02  -1.902  0.06072 . 
## Baseline.C.Peptide -2.497e-04  1.102e-04  -2.266  0.02612 * 
## Baseline.Insulin    3.869e-05  4.161e-04   0.093  0.92615   
## Baseline.Protein    1.947e-02  1.366e-02   1.425  0.15793   
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## Residual standard error: 3.465 on 81 degrees of freedom
##   (84 observations deleted due to missingness)
## Multiple R-squared:  0.4211, Adjusted R-squared:  0.321 
## F-statistic: 4.208 on 14 and 81 DF,  p-value: 1.683e-05