Table 1.
Sociodemographic and clinical data
| Variables | N (%) | Means± SD | Variables | N (%) | Means± SD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age(years) | 59.64±13.94 | Dialysis Vintage(months) | 39.89±42.59 | ||
| Gender | Kt/V<1/2 | 241(77.7) | |||
| Male | 162(52.3) | ||||
| female | 148(47.7) | ||||
| Marital status | Addict | 15(4.8) | |||
| Single | 20(6.5) | Smoke | 13(3.1) | ||
| Married | 242(78.1) | Opium | 1(0.3) | ||
| Widowed | 40(12.9) | Alcohol | 68(21.9) | ||
| divorced | 8(2.6) | Medication | 213(68.7) | ||
| No Addict | |||||
| Educational Level | BMI(Kg/m2) | ||||
| No Literacy | 148(47.7) | Under weight | 8(2.6) | ||
| Literacy | 88(28.4) | normal weight | 138(44.5) | ||
| High school | 45(14.5) | over weight | 103(33.2) | ||
| College | 29(9.4) | obesity | 61 (19.7) | ||
| Employment status | PTH(pg/ml) | ||||
| Employed | 38(11.2) | Under 15 | 2(0.6) | ||
| Unemployed | 273(87.7) | 15-65 | 32(10.3) | ||
| Above 65 | 276(89.1) | ||||
| HD location | Hemoglobin(g/dl) | ||||
| Town | 177(57.1) | Low | 288(92.2) | ||
| village | 133(42.6) | Normal | 20(6.5) | ||
| High | 2(0.6) | ||||
| Dialysis frequency | 59(18.7) | BUN(mg/dl) | 96.35± 42.11 | ||
| 2 a week | 250(80.3) | ||||
| 3 a week | Creatinine(mg/dl) | 9.4±22.5 | |||
| HD duration | Phosphorus(mg/dl) | 5.79± 1.97 | |||
| 2 until 3 h a day | 9(2.6) | ||||
| 3 until 4 h a day | 299(96.1) | Calcium(mg/dl) | 11.71±51.08 | ||
| Consumption Habits | 239(77.1) | Albumin(g/dl) | 4.24± 0.59 | ||
| Tea drinking | 4(6) | ||||
| coffee drinking | 67(21.6) | ||||
| No habit |