Joint modeling on serum creatinine and time to end stage of renal disease for chronic kidney disease patients under treatment at the University of Gondar Referral Hospital.

The majority of patients 207 (66.6%) of CKD patients were censored. On the basis of the smaller information criteria value and the significance association value, the joint model better fits the data. In the joint model, the variable anemia, diabetes mellitus, chronic heart disease, hypertension, and hepatitis were common factors of two responses, and also concluded that the rate of progression of longitudinal measure SCr decreased over time.