Impact of renal function on cardiovascular events in patients undergoing radical nephrectomy for renal cancer

This retrospective study included 178 Japanese patients who underwentradical nephrectomy between 1980 and 2010. Kaplan–Meier survival curves with a log–ranktestandtheCoxproportionalhazardsmodelwereusedtoinvestigatetheimpactofthe estimated glomerular filtration rate at 1 month after the radical nephrectomy oncardiovascular-event-free, cancer-specific and overall survivals.