Table 2. Univariate association of serum troponins with baseline characteristics using linear regression.

	Troponin-T, ng/L		Troponin-I, ng/L
	Beta	p-value	Beta	p-value
Age, years	0.03	<0.001	0.03	<0.001
Male gender	0.41	0.001	0.62	<0.001
Systolic BP, mmHg	0.002	0.43	0.002	0.46
Diastolic BP, mmHg	-0.002	0.71	-0.01	0.49
BMI, kg/m2	0.02	0.15	0.02	0.29
History of smoking	0.11	0.30	0.23	0.13
Hypertension	0.35	0.01	0.73	<0.001
Diabetes	0.14	0.18	0.20	0.18
Hypercholesterolemia	-0.09	0.40	-0.04	0.79
Dialysis vintage, years	0.03	0.02	0.04	0.04
RRF, ml/min/1.73m2	-0.09	0.01	-0.02	0.74
Dialysis modality, HD	-0.27	0.02	-0.17	0.27

Serum cTnT and cTnI levels were log transformed to acquire a normal distribution. BP: Blood Pressure, BMI: Body Mass Index; RRF: Residual Renal Function; HD: Hemodialysis.