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Table 4 Mortality outcomes during treatment for end-stage kidney disease according to indigenous status in Aotearoa/New Zealand

From: Inequity in dialysis related practices and outcomes in Aotearoa/New Zealand: a Kaupapa Māori analysis

Ethnicity

Patients, n

Follow-up (person-years)

Deaths, n

Crude mortality rate (per 100 person-years)

Age standardized mortality rate (per 100 person-years)

Crude mortality rate ratio

Indigenous age-standardised mortality rate ratio (95% CI)a

Māori

1459

4.84

847

12

8.4

1.32

1.72 (1.50–1.97)

Pacific

929

4.15

389

10.1

6.5

1.11

1.33 (1.16–1.52)

New Zealand European

1814

4.92

810

9.1

4.9

1.00 (ref)

1.00 (ref)

  1. aMortality rates were age standardized to the 2001 Māori census population