Table 1. Clinical characteristics of 10192 hemodialysis (HD) and 2548 peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients.
| HD n = 10192 | PD n = 2548 | p | |||
| Age (year) | 50.3 | ±14.5 | 50.2 | ±14.7 | 0.76 |
| Follow-up (year) | 5.9 | ±3.1 | 5.8 | ±2.7 | 0.14 |
| NODM (per 100 pts/year) | 3.7 | 2.4 | – | ||
| Mortality (per 100 pts/year) | 5.5 | 5.6 | – | ||
| Male Gender | 3692 | (36.2) | 916 | (35.9) | 0.80 |
| Body weight (kg) | 59.4 | ±4.5 | 59.3 | ±4.7 | 0.32 |
| Underlying disease | |||||
| CGN | 5913 | (58) | 1492 | (58.6) | 0.62 |
| HTN | 962 | (9.4) | 231 | (9.1) | 0.56 |
| Others | 3371 | (33.1) | 825 | (32.4) | 0.50 |
| Co-morbidity (n, %) | |||||
| HTN | 3779 | (37.1) | 948 | (37.2) | 0.91 |
| CHF | 471 | (4.6) | 116 | (4.6) | 0.88 |
| Ischemic heart | 428 | (4.2) | 94 | (3.7) | 0.25 |
| CVA | 185 | (1.8) | 43 | (1.7) | 0.66 |
| Liver disease | 289 | (2.8) | 75 | (2.9) | 0.77 |
| Cancer | 156 | (1.5) | 41 | (1.6) | 0.77 |
| Tuberculosis | 62 | (0.6) | 14 | (0.5) | 0.08 |
| Other | 717 | (7.0) | 175 | (6.9) | 0.77 |
| Hematocrit (%) | 28.8 | ±3.5 | 28.7 | ±3.7 | 0.20 |
| Serum albumin (g/dl) | 3.8 | ±0.4 | 3.8 | ±0.4 | 0.24 |
| Calcium (mg/dl) | 9.7 | ±0.7 | 9.7 | ±0.8 | 0.99 |
| Phosphate (mg/dl) | 5.1 | ±1.5 | 5.1 | ±1.2 | 0.99 |
| CPP (mg/dl)2 | 49.5 | ±11.9 | 49.2 | ±12.9 | 0.26 |
| FBG (mg/dl) | 109 | ±57 | 108 | ±50 | 0.42 |
| i-PTH (ng/dl) | 277.8 | ±283.7 | 276.8 | ±262.5 | 0.87* |
CGN: chronic glomerulonephritis, HTN: hypertension, CHF: congestive heart failure, CVA: cerebral vascular accident, FBG: fasting blood glucose, CPP: calcium-phosphate product, i-PTH: intact parathyroid hormone.
*Mann-Whitney U test.