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. 2019 May 16;4(8):1122–1130. doi: 10.1016/j.ekir.2019.04.028

Table 1.

Demographic comparison of adherent and nonadherent patients pretransplantation

n = 88 (%) Pretransplantation shortening dialysis prescription >10 min
Pretransplantation shortening dialysis prescription >15 min
Pretransplantation missed dialysis sessions ≥2
Phosphate ≥1.8 mmol/l
Adherent
Nonadherent
Adherent
Nonadherent
Adherent
Nonadherent
Adherent
Nonadherent
n = 53 (60.2%) n = 35 (39.8%) n = 66 (75%) n = 22 (25%) n = 64 (72.7%) n = 24 (27.3%) n = 51 (58%) n = 37 (42%)
Age at transplant, mean (SD) 48.5 (12.7) 49.2 (13.4) 47.5 (11.6) 49.1 (13.1) 46.9 (11.4) 48.4 (12.8) 48.9 (12.6) 50.8 (11.7) 45.4 (13.4)a
Age at first dialysis, mean (SD) 44.9 (13.0) 45.3 (13.7) 44.3 (12.0) 45.1 (13.6) 44.2 (11.2) 44.7 (13.3) 45.5 (12.4) 47.2 (12.3) 41.7 (13.4)
Sex, n (%)
Male 55 (62.5) 32 (60.4) 23 (65.7) 41 (62.1) 14 (63.6) 39 (60.9) 16 (66.7) 31 (60.8) 24 (64.9)
Female 33 (37.5) 21 (39.6) 12 (34.3) 25 (37.9) 8 (36.4) 25 (39.1) 8 (33.3) 20 (39.2) 13 (35.1)
Ethnicity, n (%)
White 48 (54.5) 29 (54.7) 19 (54.3) 39 (59.1) 9 (40.9) 32 (50) 16 (66.7) 28 (54.9) 20 (54.1)
Nonwhite 40 (45.5) 24 (45.3) 16 (45.7) 27 (40.9) 13 (59.1) 32 (50) 8 (33.3) 23 (45.1) 17 (45.9)
Index of Multiple Deprivation, mean (SD) 5.5 (2.9) 5.3 (3.0) 5.9 (2.8) 5.6 (3.0) 5.2 (2.7) 5.3 (3.1) 5.9 (2.6) 6.0 (3.0) 4.8 (2.7)
Dialysis
Dialysis vintage, mo Median (IQR) 26 (16, 49) 26 (16.3, 54) 26 (15, 40) 26 (17, 51) 24 (13, 39) 25 (16, 48) 27 (16, 50) 28 (15, 55) 24 (17, 40)
KRU median (IQR) 0.42 (0.01, 2.2) 0.30 (0.01, 1.2) 1.28 (0.07, 2.7)a 0.41 (0.01, 1.9) 0.64 (0.01, 2.6) 0.39 (0.01, 2.2) 0.81 (0.01, 2.3) 1.1 (0.01, 2.8) 0.10 (0.01, 0.86)a
PTH median (IQR) 37 (25, 57) 35 (22.2, 57) 43 (25, 59) 36 (25, 57) 43 (25, 60) 38 (26, 57) 30 (14, 70) 30 (17, 51) 50 (34, 72)a
IDWG median (IQR) 1.79 (1.24, 2.4) 1.8 (1.4, 2.4) 1.8 (1.1, 2.4) 1.8 (1.2, 2.4) 1.8 (1.1, 2.5) 1.8 (1.2, 2.4) 1.9 (1.3, 2.5) 1.7 (.94, 2.4) 1.8 (1.6, 2.5)

IDWG, interdialytic weight gain (kg); IQR, interquartile range; KRU, urea clearance (ml/min); PTH, parathyroid hormone (pmol/l).

a

P < 0.05.