Table 2.

Participants’ clinical characteristics (n = 20)

Participants	20
Gender
Female	11
Male	9
Age
< 75	2
75–79	5
80–84	8
≥ 85	5
Marital Status
Married	8
Widowed	9
Single	3
Ethnicity
White British	18
Afro-Caribbean	1
Other	1
Renal Diagnosis
Diabetes Mellitus	5
Glomerulo-nephritis	3
Renal vascular disease	2
Unknown	9
Other	1
Karnofsky Performance Status Score [56]
40%	3
50%	3
60%	4
70%	7
80%	3
Modified Charlson Comorbidity Index Score*
2	2
3	5
4	5
5	4
6	3
8	1

*Charlson Comorbidity Index [57] modified for renal patients to exclude renal diagnosis and age from the scoring [58]