Table 1.

Patient characteristics and biochemistry and laboratory variable

	Control	Pre-HD	End-HD
Age	44.6 ± 4.7	43±5.9
Weight (kg)	78.3 ± 16.4	75.2±3.5
Lean body mass (kg)	42.4±2.4	40.0±2.8
Protein g• kg-1•day-1	1.37±0.05	1.45 ± 0.09
Calories kcal•kg-1•day-1	35.2±1.21	33.2±3.7
Hemoglobin (g/dL)	14.6±0.5a	12.1±0.3	12.3±0.5
BUN (mg/dL)	14.4±1.1	67.2±6.0b	18.1±3.7
Creatinine (mg/dL)	1.1±0.2	9.6±1.4b	4.8±0.7
Glucose (mg/dL)	84.6±9.6	89.8±10.1	105.2±9.7
Bicarbonate (meq/L)	23.2±0.5	23.6±0.8	27.3±2.4c
Albumin (g/dL)	4.2±0.2a	3.3±0.2	3.4±0.2
Insulin (μU/dL)	11.6±4.1	22.9±4.4d	17.5±4.2
Glucagon (pg/dL)	66.2±8.2	147.4±14.8e	90.2±8.5
IGF-1 (μg/L)	198.6±9.4	192.9±24.8
Cortisol (μg/dL)	14.4±3.1	10.3±1.2	17.7±2.4c
hsCRP (mg/dL)	1.01±0.19A	3.72±0.89	3.81±0.76

^ap<0.01 Control vs. Pre-HD and End-HD

^bp<0.001 Pre-HD vs. control and End-HD

^cp<0.01 End-HD vs. control

^dp<0.05 Pre-HD vs. Control

^ep<0.01 Pre-HD vs. Controls