Sensitivity Analysis: New User Design
deaths, CKD
CVD, EVENTS
When the study was expanded to include all 16 694 eligible veterans older than 65 years, free of CVD, and with a new diagnosis of CKD 3 or 4, there were 6931 deaths and 8199 MACE events. After propensity score overlap weighting was applied, the hazard ratio for mortality was 0.68 (95% CI, 0.62-0.76) and for MACE was 0.84 (95% CI, 0.76-0.92) (eTable in 