Table 2.

Correlations between the patients’ baseline plasma NGAL level and baseline recipients’ characteristics

Parameter	r	p value
Age (yrs)	-0.231	0.127
Gender	0.127	0.406
Weight (kg)	0.021	0.891
Body mass index (kg/m2)	0.128	0.400
Underlying kidney disease	-0.159	0.296
Mode of pretransplant dialysis	0.033	0.831
Length of pretransplant dialysis (months)	-0.098	0.548
Pre-transplantation serum creatinine (mg/dL)	0.04	0.796