F. Wiesbauer(1)*, G. Heinze(2)*, C. Mitterbauer(3), F. Harnoncourt(4), WH. Hörl(3), R. Oberbauer(3,4,5)
1- Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
2- Core Unit of Medical Statistics and Informatics, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
3- Department of Nephrology, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
4- Department of Nephrology, KH Elisabethinen, Linz, Austria
5- Austrian Dialysis and Transplant Registry, Wels, Austria
* Both authors contributed equally to the paper

Characteristics of all 1,829 patients with graft survival of at least 90 days
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Hazard function (risk for graft loss or death per year)
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Complete Case Only analysis
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Cardiovascular death outcome
Among the 2041 patients, 223 died with confirmed cardiovascular causes. 35 of these 223 deaths occurred before day 90. Extended Kaplan-Meier plot stratified for (timedependent) statin

Analysis of sensitivity of multiple imputation approach (comparison of results from multiple imputation after randomly deleting data and non-randomly deleting data)
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Analysis including events between days 0 and 90
Kaplan-Meier analysis
b actual graft survival
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Analysis including events between days 0 and 90
Kaplan-Meier analysis
c functional graft survival
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MSM analysis without statin users at baseline
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Clinical expertise models (HLA mismatches, CIT, Induction therapy, donor age forced into model)
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Interaction analysis (HR of statin use in subgroups which were close to significant)
a Patient survival
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Interaction analysis (HR of statin use in subgroups which were close to significant)
b actual graft survival
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Interaction analysis (HR of statin use in subgroups which were close to significant)
c functional graft survival
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Analysis of time to (biopsy confirmed) acute rejection
Results from Kaplan-Meier analysis and Cox regression. Dependent variable: BCAR up to one year after transplantation.

Multivariable Cox’s proportional hazards model assessing the confounder-adjusted association of statin treatment on actual graft survival (graft failure and death with functioning graft counted as endpoints)
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Kaplan-Meier curves of actual graft survival
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Multivariable Cox analysis assessing the effect of statin treatment on patient survival and functional graft survival.
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Onset of statin treatment after transplantation.
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