. 2016 Mar 15;4:e1818. doi: 10.7717/peerj.1818

Table 1. Baseline characteristics of enrollees.

Clinical features	DM	Non-DM	p value
Demographic profile
Age (years)	69.4 ± 11.7	66 ± 11.6	0.3
Gender (male %)	11 (48)	11 (48)	1
Dialysis duration (years)	2.6 ± 2.3	4.1 ± 3.2	0.07
Marriage (yes %)	22 (96)	21 (91)	0.89
Education (%)			0.9
None	8 (35)	9 (39)
Elementary school	10 (43)	8 (35)
High school or higher	5 (22)	6 (26)
Body mass index (kg/m²)	23.5 ± 2.5	22.9 ± 3.5	0.51
Comorbidity
Heart failure (%)	5 (22)	4 (17)	0.84
Dialysis comorbidity Index	2.24 ± 1.64	0.96 ± 1.65	0.01
ESRD origin (%)			0.001
Diabetic nephropathy	19 (83)	0 (0)
Chronic glomerulonephritis	2 (9)	2 (9)
Others	1 (4)	6 (26)
Unknown	1 (4)	15 (65)
Laboratory data
Nutritional profiles
Albumin (g/dL)	3.9 ± 0.4	4 ± 0.4	0.36
Total cholesterol (mg/dL)	158 ± 44	161 ± 47	0.8
Triglyceride (mg/dL)	186 ± 120	145 ± 125	0.26
HDL (mg/dL)	40 ± 9.1	43 ± 13	0.29
LDL (mg/dL)	86 ± 37	93 ± 33	0.53
Uric acid (mg/dL)	8.5 ± 2.2	8.6 ± 1.3	0.84
Azotemic parameters
BUN (mg/dL)	87.4 ± 22.7	86.8 ± 19.1	0.92
Cre (mg/dL)	11 ± 2.4	11.6 ± 2.3	0.35
Kt/V	1.6 ± 0.3	1.6 ± 0.2	0.84
Urea reduction ratio (%)	74.3 ± 5	74.7 ± 3.4	0.8
Electrolyte panels
Sodium (meq/L)	134 ± 3.2	135 ± 3.8	0.31
Pottasium (meq/L)	4.7 ± 0.7	4.8 ± 0.7	0.4
Caclium (mg/dL)	9.1 ± 0.9	9.3 ± 0.6	0.29
Phosphrus (mg/dL)	5.3 ± 1.6	4.4 ± 1	0.02
Metabolic/hormones
Hemoglobin (mg/dL)	10.2 ± 1.7	12.2 ± 11.7	0.44
Ferritin (ng/mL)	1191 ± 2048	597 ± 293	0.18
TSAT (%)	30.9 ± 23.6	26.6 ± 10.7	0.43
Intact PTH (pg/ml)	361 ± 374	299 ± 254	0.52

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