Health related quality of life in patients in dialysis after renal graft loss and effect of gender

Table 1 Patient characteristics of prevalent dialysis patients

	RG + (n = 50)	RG – (n = 251)	p level
Female gender	23/50	79/250	0.05
Age years	50.3 (16.6)	61.7 (15.5)	< 0.001
Systolic blood pressure mmHg	137 (23)	142 (21)	0.12
Diastolic blood pressure mmHg	79 (15)	77 (12)	0.46
Body mass index kg/m ²	21.5 (20 - 25)	24.8 (22 - 28)	< 0.001
Hemoglobin g/dL	12.2 (1.5)	12.1 (1.5)	0.66
Albumin g/L	37.4 (4.7)	38.4 (5.0)	0.19
CRP mmol/L	8 (2 - 13)	6.0 (2 - 13)	0.92
Cholesterol mmol/L	4.7 (1.3)	4.2 (1.3)	0.01
PTH pmol/L	25 (12 - 51)	24 (13 - 40)	0.61
Urea mmol/L	23 (7)	22 (6)	0.18
Charlson comorbidity index ^*	3 (2 - 4)	4 (2 - 5)	0.08
Dialysis vintage months	13 (5 - 28)^†	10 (5 - 23)	0.52
Nephrosclerosis	3/48	76/248	< 0.001
Waiting listed	25/50	97/250	0.14

RG + = Dialysis patients with renal graft loss; RG - = Dialysis patients not previously transplanted. Data given as mean ± SD (standard deviation), median with IQR (inter quartile range), or proportion.
*Modified Charlson comorbidity Index without adding points for each decade of increasing age > 40 years; ^† Months after graft loss.

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