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Table 3. Comparison of chronic dialysis patients with high and low medication adherence status.

Clinical features	High adherence (n = 8)	Low adherence (n = 43)	p value
Demographic profiles
Age (years)	71.1 ± 9.3	67.4 ± 12.2	0.42
Gender (male %)	4 (50)	18 (42)	0.68
Duration of dialysis (years)	4.5 ± 4.1	3.2 ± 2.5	0.23
Monthly disposable income (higher than 300 USD)	5 (63)	19 (44)	0.35
Comorbidities (%)
Diabetes mellitus	4 (50)	22 (51)	0.95
Hypertension	7 (88)	39 (91)	0.79
Cirrhosis	1 (13)	3 (7)	0.6
Heart failure	2 (25)	9 (21)	0.8
Malignancy	2 (25)	4 (9)	0.21
Dialysis comorbidity index	2 ± 1.9	1.6 ± 1.8	0.52
Etiology of ESRD (%)			0.81
Diabetic nephropathy	3 (38)	18 (42)
Chronic glomerulonephritis	1 (13)	3 (7)
Miscellaneous	0 (0)	7 (16)
Unknown	4 (50)	15 (35)
Laboratory parameters
Biochemistry and electrolytes
Blood Urea Nitrogen (mg/dL)	73.5 ± 13.2	82.2 ± 20.8	0.26
Creatinine (mg/dL)	10.7 ± 2.2	10.6 ± 2.5	0.99
Sodium (meq/L)	136 ± 4.1	135 ± 3.9	0.61
Potassium (meq/L)	4.8 ± 0.8	4.7 ± 0.7	0.65
Calcium (mg/dL)	8.6 ± 0.9	9 ± 0.8	0.25
Phosphate (mg/dL)	4.3 ± 1.3	5.5 ± 1.5	0.06
Calcium-phosphate product	37.9 ± 3.7	49.1 ± 13.5	0.04
Nutrition
Albumin (mg/dL)	3.8 ± 0.4	3.8 ± 0.3	0.97
Glucose (mg/dL)	87.5 ± 19.9	110.6 ± 39.1	0.11
Total cholesterol (mg/dL)	154 ± 41	158 ± 40	0.77
Total triglyceride (mg/dL)	119 ± 87	165 ± 111	0.28
Anemic profile
Hemoglobin (g/dL)	9.3 ± 0.4	9.8 ± 1.4	0.35
Ferritin (ng/mL)	529 ± 172	670 ± 852	0.65
Transferrin saturation (%)	31.7 ± 16.6	27.6 ± 14.8	0.48
Dialysis adequacy
Single pool Kt∕V	1.6 ± 0.2	1.6 ± 0.3	0.99
Urea reduction ratio (%)	75 ± 3.5	75 ± 6.3	0.9

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