Table 3.

Characteristics of patients treated with different dialyzers

	Modified cellulose and synthetic dialyzers			Unmodified cellulose dialyzers
	N	Mean	sd	N	Mean	sd
Age, years	126	54.2	13.7	104	54.6	15.0
Diabetes, %		52.6			47.4
Severity coefficient		2.4	0.94		2.4	1.0
Serum albumin, g/dl		3.9	0.42		3.8	0.5
Kt/V		1.29	0.35		1.17	0.27a
IL-1, pg/ml		82.3	104.4		94.7	120.8
IL-2, pg/ml		16.6	7.6		15.4	7.9
IL-4, pg/ml		12.5	6.0		13.9	6.7
IL-5, pg/ml		12.3	5.9		13.3	6.3
IL-6, pg/ml		89.8	115.2		95.4	121.7
IL-12, pg/ml		14.3	6.5		14.0	6.4
IL-13, pg/ml		30.4	35.0		27.9	25.2
TNF-α, pg/ml		106.6	140.7		123.9	154.5
T-cells/10−8/liter		49.5	10.1		50.2	9.8
T-cell RECALL, SI units		18.5	11.0		20.2	11.4
CH50, units/ml		54.1	0.3		55.4	18.2

^aP = 0.006.