Table 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristic of subjects.
| Demographic Characteristics | |
| Age (years) | 50 ± 17 |
| Gender (males, %) | 22 (49%) |
| Nationality (Saudis, %) | 18 (40%) |
| Marital Status | |
| Single/Married/Divorced | 29%/69%/2% |
| Education | |
| Elementary/Middle/High schools | 11%/11%/11% |
| College/None | 35.5%/31.1% |
| Employed (Yes) | 9 (20%) |
| No People in Home | |
| <3; 3–5; >5 | 27%/47%/27% |
| Clinical Characteristics | |
| Dialysis Session Duration (hours) | 3.22 ± 0.12 |
| Dialysis Frequency | |
| 3 days/week | 44/45 (97.8%) |
| Dialysis Vintage (months) | 78 ± 61 |
| Vascular Access | |
| Catheter/Fistula/Graft | 40%/51%/9% |
| Cause | |
| DM/HTN/SLE/Others | 27%/49%/7%/17% |
| Comorbidities | |
| DM/Sec. HPTH/Hep. C/Smokers | 36%/33%/2% |
| Smokers | 5 (11%) |
Data are mean ± SD; n = 45 or percentages. Abbreviations: DM: diabetes mellitus; HTN: hypertension; SLE: systemic lupus erythematosus; Hep. C.: hepatitis C. Non-Saudi nationalities included: Yemeni 10, Filipino 5, Chadian 1, Palestinian 2, Eritrean 3, Myanmar 2, Somalian 1, Sudanese 2, and Syrian 1.