Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of urgent-start HD and PD patients
| Baseline characteristics | All |
Case-matched |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HD (n = 50) | PD (n = 23) | P-value | HD (n = 18) | PD (n = 18) | P-value | |
| Age (years) | 60 ± 16 | 47 ± 16 | 0.002 | 52 ± 14 | 52 ± 14 | 0.99 |
| Gender (male %) | 66 | 78 | 0.29 | 72 | 72 | 1.0 |
| Race (Caucasian %) | 38 | 52 | 0.26 | 33 | 55 | 0.18 |
| Follow-up duration (months) | 16.7 ± 11.1 | 14.7 ± 10.3 | 0.47 | 18.2 ± 11.8 | 15.1 ± 10.8 | 0.30 |
| Potassium (mEq/L) | 4.6 ± 0.7 | 4.3 ± 0.7 | 0.05 | 4.5 ± 0.7 | 4.3 ± 0.6 | 0.23 |
| HCO3 (mEq/L) | 19 ± 5 | 19 ± 5 | 0.92 | 19 ± 3 | 19 ± 4 | 0.70 |
| BUN (mg/dL) | 94 ± 40 | 110 ± 44 | 0.14 | 94 ± 43 | 104 ± 38 | 0.37 |
| Creatinine (mg/dL) | 8.1 ± 4.3 | 11.8 ± 5.7 | 0.0031 | 9.9 ± 3.3 | 9.7 ± 3.4 | 0.82 |
| Albumin (g/dL) | 3.3 ± 0.5 | 3.3 ± 0.6 | 0.41 | 3.2 ± 0.5 | 3.3 ± 0.6 | 0.68 |
| Coronary artery disease (%) | 38 | 17 | 0.08 | 33 | 22 | 0.46 |
| Congestive heart failure (%) | 44 | 48 | 0.76 | 33 | 50 | 0.31 |
| Hypertension (%) | 92 | 96 | 0.56 | 89 | 94 | 0.55 |
| DM (%) | 58 | 30 | 0.029 | 33 | 33 | 1.0 |
| Malignancy (%) | 12 | 4 | 0.30 | 6 | 6 | 1.0 |
| Obesity (BMI >30) (%) | 24 | 35 | 0.34 | 33 | 33 | 1.0 |
| Dialysis accessa (%) | 10 | 30 | 0.029 | 11 | 33 | 0.10 |
a
Dialysis access planned (but not mature or healed at the time of urgent-start dialysis).
Data are presented as mean ± SD or %.
BUN, blood urea nitrogen; BMI, body mass index.