Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of the participants

Variables	Values
Age (year)	54.40 ± 17.08
Gender (male%)	56.67
Dialysis age (year)	4.07 ± 3.87
Height (m)	1.69 ± 0.08
Weight (kg)	71.91 ± 16.76
Body mass index (kg/m2)	24.83 ± 5.10
Diabetes mellitus (%)	40.00
Coronary heart disease (%)	16.67
Hemoglobin (g/L)	89.27 ± 10.77
Albumin (g/L)	39.20 ± 5.07
Creatine (μmol/L)	839.87 ± 264.70
Urea nitrogen (mmol/L)	28.37 ± 6.79
Calcium (mmol/L)	2.20 ± 0.18
Phosphorus (mmol/L)	2.04 ± 0.58
β2 microglobulin (mmol/L)	41.83 ± 13.15
Triglyceride (mmol/L)	2.80 ± 2.62
Cholesterol (mmol/L)	3.69 ± 1.00
Kt/v	1.25 ± 0.20

Data are presented as means and standard deviations for continuous variables and as frequencies and percentages for categorical variables